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Film photo from April 1997: Phillip as a kid in an oversized white shirt, spraying a toy motorcycle with a garden hose on a wet driveway.
REMASTERED
2026

Phillip Young

washing the bike

full-stack software engineer · est. 1997

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About

Creative and pragmatic engineer with 14 years of experience. Specializes in full-stack web development and building complex interactive platforms from scratch. Passionate about creating performant, scalable products with clean architecture and thoughtful user experiences.

The kid on the cover is washing a toy motorcycle with a garden hose, April 26, 1997. The care hasn’t changed — only the machines have.

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Now Playing

Boroboros

● OUT NOW

A zero-fee, peer-to-peer marketplace for men's fashion.

A men's fashion marketplace — "where clothes find new life" — built by pivoting the Betaflops platform into a multi-brand architecture: one ~110k-line TypeScript codebase serving two branded storefronts. The name blends ouroboros with boro, the Japanese tradition of textile repair and reuse.

SELECTED CREDITS

  • Crosslisting engine for eBay, Grailed, and Depop: Cloud Functions build canonical listing payloads, a Firestore-backed queue tracks operations, and a companion Chrome (MV3) extension posts through the seller's own logged-in sessions — exactly-once via Web Locks leader election, sync tokens, and server-side claims.
  • Binding offers on PayPal: buyer funds are authorized for 48 hours at offer time, captured on seller acceptance, and auto-voided via Cloud Tasks — plus webhook-driven refund and dispute handling.
  • AI listing autofill: Gemini structured-output extraction fills category, size, brand, color, material, and condition from item photos; voice dictation on the listing form.
  • Typesense search with per-market facet schemas and semantic similar-item search via auto-embedded vectors.
  • Bidirectional inventory sync with price mirroring, sold/deleted reconciliation, and fuzzy relist detection.
  • Open Graph link previews for the SPA via a Cloudflare Worker + KV populated from Firestore triggers.
  • 550+ commits in the last 18 months; toolchain modernized end-to-end (Vite 8, Functions v2 on Node 24, React Router 7, zod).

PERSONNEL — React · TypeScript · Vite · Firebase · Typesense · PayPal · Gemini · Cloud Tasks · Cloudflare Workers · Chrome Extension (MV3)

listen at boroboros.com ↗
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Discography

Mar 2025 – Present

BoroborosNOW

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

Building a zero-fee, peer-to-peer men's fashion marketplace as sole engineer — a ~110k-line TypeScript monorepo (React PWA, ~70 Firebase Cloud Functions) with 550+ commits shipped over the last 18 months.

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  • Pivoted the dormant Betaflops platform into a multi-brand architecture serving two storefronts from one codebase: domain-driven branding, per-brand Vite builds with env-injected PWA manifests, and Firebase multi-site hosting.
  • Designed a cross-marketplace listing engine for eBay, Grailed, and Depop — Cloud Functions build canonical payloads, a Firestore-backed queue tracks operations, and a Chrome (MV3) extension executes them through the seller's own logged-in sessions, with exactly-once posting via Web Locks leader election, sync tokens, and server-side claims.
  • Implemented marketplace payments on PayPal: partner-referral seller onboarding, instant-disbursement captures with platform fees, and binding offers backed by 48-hour authorizations that capture on acceptance or auto-void via Cloud Tasks; webhook-driven refund and dispute handling.
  • Automated listing creation with Gemini structured-output extraction (category, size, brand, color, material, condition from photos) using per-market dynamic schemas, plus voice dictation input.
  • Extended Typesense search with per-market facet schemas and semantic similar-item search via auto-embedded listing vectors.
  • Built bidirectional inventory sync (weekly/biweekly schedulers) with price mirroring, sold/deleted reconciliation across platforms, and Levenshtein-based relist detection.
  • Kept scraping-based importers alive against bot management by iterating from Chrome TLS-fingerprint impersonation to geo-pinned residential proxies, with scheduled per-marketplace health-check canaries.
  • Served Open Graph link previews for the SPA with a Cloudflare Worker + KV populated from Firestore triggers.
  • Modernized the 2020-era codebase: CRA → Vite 8, Firebase Functions v1 → v2 (Node 24), React Router 7, joi → zod, with 20+ production data-migration scripts.
  • Built a streaming image pipeline (busboy → sharp → WebP + thumbnails) with Cloud Vision SafeSearch moderation.

React · TypeScript · Vite · Firebase · Firestore · GCP · Typesense · PayPal · Gemini · Cloudflare Workers · Chrome Extensions

Mar 2023 – Mar 2025

Openexus

Software Engineer

One of the first two employees at a venture-backed startup building a modular app and workflow platform.

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  • Helped establish core engineering practices and technical direction using TypeScript and Solid.js.
  • Designed and implemented Postgres integration: schema architecture, frontend bindings with caching, and optimistic updates.
  • Built custom Vite plugins to compile user-written JavaScript and bundle Python code for in-browser execution.
  • Developed framework-specific libraries for React, Svelte, Vue, and Solid to integrate with the platform.
  • Architected a secure iframe-based sandbox for executing user modules with messaging and data syncing.
  • Created a granular permissions and sharing model for user-created apps.
  • Built modules for integrations including Airtable, Dropbox, Spotify, AI, and crypto APIs.
  • Implemented user onboarding with interactive tutorials and demo apps.
  • Wrote external developer documentation using Docusaurus.
  • Integrated analytics via OpenReplay, PostHog, Clarity, and Umami (with proxying for ad-block evasion).
  • Managed deployments with AWS Copilot, Fargate, ECS, and CodePipeline.

TypeScript · Solid.js · Postgres · Vite · AWS

2018 – 2022

Betaflops

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

Solo-built a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling mechanical keyboards.

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  • Integrated PayPal Marketplaces API for order and payment handling.
  • Built an integrated chat app with support for image sharing, notifications, and tracking orders.
  • Developed a fast, full-text search and filtering experience using Typesense and InstantSearch.js.
  • Used Google Vision and AI tools to automate content moderation.
  • Designed a cost-efficient document-based database schema with built-in redundancy to optimize cloud resource usage.
  • Wrote responsive transactional and marketing emails using MJML, and handled delivery via Amazon SES and SendGrid.

React · TypeScript · Firebase · Firestore · GCP · Cloud Functions · Typesense · Elastic UI

Aug 2012 – Aug 2017

Oracle

Senior Hardware Engineer

Contributed to SPARC processor development by building physical design tools and automation workflows.

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  • Developed algorithms and visualization tools in Perl, Tcl/Tk, and C to optimize floorplanning and routing.
  • Created reusable, electromagnetically clean bus-routing patterns later adopted by Synopsys.
  • Designed congestion maps and GUIs to visualize ASIC layout constraints.
  • Built shape-aware data structures to avoid DRC errors across massive metal/via datasets.
  • Optimized tool runtime and memory use via parallelism for 7nm process nodes.
  • Led transition from 10nm to 7nm tooling process across the team.

Perl · Tcl/Tk · C

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B-Sides & Rarities

  1. B01

    Betaflops — A peer-to-peer marketplace for mechanical keyboards.

    Solo-built marketplace where enthusiasts buy and sell mechanical keyboards, keycaps, and parts — with integrated payments, chat, search, and moderation.

    2018 – 2022 · React · TypeScript · Firebase · Firestore · Cloud Functions · Typesense · Elastic UI · GCP · betaflops.com ↗

  2. B02

    Openexus Platform — A modular app & workflow platform.

    Venture-backed platform where users build and share modular apps. Built the foundations: data layer, plugin compilation, sandboxing, permissions, and integrations.

    2023 – 2025 · TypeScript · Solid.js · Postgres · Vite · AWS · openexus.com ↗

  3. B03

    This Website — A personal archive of code, clothes, and things I've built.

    The site you're looking at — built with Next.js and TypeScript, statically exported, designed as a set of interchangeable themes ranging from album-cover editorial to a Windows-95 desktop.

    2026 · Next.js · React · TypeScript · CSS Modules

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Influences

everything that ends up in the work, one way or another —

  • Fashion

    Menswear is the hobby that turned into a product — an appreciation for construction, fabric, and silhouette that eventually became Boroboros, a marketplace for it.

  • Music

    Always listening to something. This section is a rotating shelf of what's on repeat.

  • Sports

    Playing, watching, and arguing about it.

  • Anime

    A running watchlist, from seasonal picks to the canon.

  • Mechanical Keyboards

    The obsession that became Betaflops — switches, keycaps, group buys, and the perfect typing sound.

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Credits

LANGUAGES
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Perl, Tcl, VHDL, Verilog, HTML, CSS, x86 Assembly
FRAMEWORKS & TOOLS
React, Solid.js, Vue, Svelte, Next.js, Vite, Redux, React Router, Firebase, Django, Cloud Functions, Workbox / PWA
INFRASTRUCTURE
Google Cloud Platform, AWS (Copilot, ECS, Fargate), Docker, Cloudflare Workers & KV, Google Cloud Tasks
SEARCH & COMMERCE
Typesense, Algolia, InstantSearch, PayPal APIs, Gemini API, Chrome Extensions (MV3)
UI LIBRARIES
Elastic UI, Semantic UI, Material UI, Bootstrap
OTHER
Git, OpenReplay, PostHog, SendGrid, MJML, Docusaurus, Google Vision
EDUCATED AT
California Institute of Technology, B.S., Electrical Engineering, 2012
BOOKING / MGMT
phyocean@gmail.com