Phillip Young

Spring / Summer 2026 — Portfolio Archive — All Items One of One

Phillip Young

The Archive — Lookbook 001Spring / Summer 2026
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.
Look 001 — First Wash — Spring ’97I build marketplaces, platforms, and polished web experiences — from scratch.
01 — About14 Years in Service

Full-Stack Software Engineer

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.
Washing the bike — April 26, 1997

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.

02 — ListingsAll Pieces (04)

Listings

№ 001In Stock

Boroboros

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

2025 – Present · Founder, designer, and sole engineer

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.

  • 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).
Available in
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Firebase
  • Typesense
  • PayPal
  • Gemini
  • Cloud Tasks
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Chrome Extension (MV3)
View — boroboros.com ↗
№ 002In Stock

Betaflops

A peer-to-peer marketplace for mechanical keyboards.

2018 – 2022 · Founder, designer, and sole engineer

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

  • PayPal Marketplaces API integration for orders, payments, and seller onboarding.
  • Built-in buyer–seller chat with image sharing, notifications, and order tracking.
  • Full-text instant search and filtering with Typesense + InstantSearch.js.
  • Automated content moderation using Google Vision.
  • Cost-efficient Firestore schema design with built-in redundancy.
  • Transactional and marketing email via MJML, Amazon SES, and SendGrid.
Available in
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Firebase
  • Firestore
  • Cloud Functions
  • Typesense
  • Elastic UI
  • GCP
View — betaflops.com ↗
№ 003In Stock

Openexus Platform

A modular app & workflow platform.

2023 – 2025 · Founding engineer (first two employees)

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

  • Postgres integration: schema architecture, frontend bindings with caching and optimistic updates.
  • Custom Vite plugins compiling user-written JavaScript and bundling Python for in-browser execution.
  • Secure iframe sandbox for user modules with messaging and data syncing.
  • Framework adapter libraries for React, Svelte, Vue, and Solid.
Available in
  • TypeScript
  • Solid.js
  • Postgres
  • Vite
  • AWS
View — openexus.com ↗
№ 004Pre-Order

This Website

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

2026 · Designer & engineer

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.

  • Multiple full design systems over one shared data layer.
  • Static export deployable to any free host.
Available in
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CSS Modules
Ref. personal-site
03 — Work04 Collections

Collections

SS25—Collection 01 / 04

Boroboros

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.

Notes (10)
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Extended Typesense search with per-market facet schemas and semantic similar-item search via auto-embedded listing vectors.
  6. Built bidirectional inventory sync (weekly/biweekly schedulers) with price mirroring, sold/deleted reconciliation across platforms, and Levenshtein-based relist detection.
  7. 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.
  8. Served Open Graph link previews for the SPA with a Cloudflare Worker + KV populated from Firestore triggers.
  9. 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.
  10. Built a streaming image pipeline (busboy → sharp → WebP + thumbnails) with Cloud Vision SafeSearch moderation.
Materials
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Firebase
  • Firestore
  • GCP
  • Typesense
  • PayPal
  • Gemini
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Chrome Extensions
Mar 2025 – PresentRemoteVisit ↗In Season
SS23–25Collection 02 / 04

Openexus

Software Engineer

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

Notes (11)
  1. Helped establish core engineering practices and technical direction using TypeScript and Solid.js.
  2. Designed and implemented Postgres integration: schema architecture, frontend bindings with caching, and optimistic updates.
  3. Built custom Vite plugins to compile user-written JavaScript and bundle Python code for in-browser execution.
  4. Developed framework-specific libraries for React, Svelte, Vue, and Solid to integrate with the platform.
  5. Architected a secure iframe-based sandbox for executing user modules with messaging and data syncing.
  6. Created a granular permissions and sharing model for user-created apps.
  7. Built modules for integrations including Airtable, Dropbox, Spotify, AI, and crypto APIs.
  8. Implemented user onboarding with interactive tutorials and demo apps.
  9. Wrote external developer documentation using Docusaurus.
  10. Integrated analytics via OpenReplay, PostHog, Clarity, and Umami (with proxying for ad-block evasion).
  11. Managed deployments with AWS Copilot, Fargate, ECS, and CodePipeline.
Materials
  • TypeScript
  • Solid.js
  • Postgres
  • Vite
  • AWS
Mar 2023 – Mar 2025RemoteVisit ↗
FW18–22Collection 03 / 04

Betaflops

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

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

Notes (06)
  1. Integrated PayPal Marketplaces API for order and payment handling.
  2. Built an integrated chat app with support for image sharing, notifications, and tracking orders.
  3. Developed a fast, full-text search and filtering experience using Typesense and InstantSearch.js.
  4. Used Google Vision and AI tools to automate content moderation.
  5. Designed a cost-efficient document-based database schema with built-in redundancy to optimize cloud resource usage.
  6. Wrote responsive transactional and marketing emails using MJML, and handled delivery via Amazon SES and SendGrid.
Materials
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Firebase
  • Firestore
  • GCP
  • Cloud Functions
  • Typesense
  • Elastic UI
2018 – 2022RemoteVisit ↗
FW12–17Collection 04 / 04

Oracle

Senior Hardware Engineer

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

Notes (06)
  1. Developed algorithms and visualization tools in Perl, Tcl/Tk, and C to optimize floorplanning and routing.
  2. Created reusable, electromagnetically clean bus-routing patterns later adopted by Synopsys.
  3. Designed congestion maps and GUIs to visualize ASIC layout constraints.
  4. Built shape-aware data structures to avoid DRC errors across massive metal/via datasets.
  5. Optimized tool runtime and memory use via parallelism for 7nm process nodes.
  6. Led transition from 10nm to 7nm tooling process across the team.
Materials
  • Perl
  • Tcl/Tk
  • C
Aug 2012 – Aug 2017Santa Clara, CA
04 — Saved05 Queries

Saved Searches

01

“Fashion”

2 filters — results pending

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

  • InterestsTODO: designers, eras, or styles you love
  • GrailsTODO: pieces you're hunting
02

“Music”

2 filters — results pending

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

  • On rotationTODO: current artists / albums
  • All-timersTODO: the permanent collection
03

“Sports”

2 filters — results pending

Playing, watching, and arguing about it.

  • PlayingTODO: what you play
  • WatchingTODO: teams / leagues you follow
04

“Anime”

2 filters — results pending

A running watchlist, from seasonal picks to the canon.

  • Currently watchingTODO: this season's list
  • FavoritesTODO: all-time top picks
05

“Mechanical Keyboards”

2 filters — results pending

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

  • Daily driverTODO: your current board
  • CollectionTODO: notable boards / switches
05 — Materials06 Groups

Materials & Care

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
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