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Hey there 👋

I'm Khai.

I build software. Sometimes it's good. 😎

Resume 📄

🧑‍💻 About Me

🚀 What I Do

I'm a developer who builds cool, interesting things. I like picking up new tech and shipping useful stuff for me and my friends -- and occasionally it even works on the first try. All that jazz.

🎮 When I'm Not Coding

Weekdays it's work, eat, gym, sleep, repeat. Come the weekend I participate in nerd emoji 🤓 activities: getting farmed like a vegetable in video games, brain-rotting on YouTube, binging movies, and hunting down new food spots like the foodie I am.

💼Experience

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PromptArmor (YC W24)

Founding Engineer

Oct 2025 -- Present

Mum's the word -- technical details are limited to protect proprietary market strategy. The rules are strict, so my lips are sealed!

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Tesla

Software Engineer

Jan 2024 -- Oct 2025

  • Integrated automated screenshot capture into automated test reports, reclaiming 16 team-hours weekly for 4 engineers by streamlining debugging processes
  • Developed and rapidly iterated on 12 REST API endpoints using Golang in collaboration with CATL, integrating Tesla's employee data with CATL's user management system
  • Implemented an AI Test Automation agent using Python and the Agno library to reduce time spent writing boilerplate end-to-end test code by 1.5 hours per week
  • Automated test environment deployment in CI/CD pipeline by developing a custom tool in Go, eliminating 3 hours weekly of manual release regression setup
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Cue Health

Software Development Intern

Jun 2023 -- Aug 2023

  • Reduced the time to treatment recommendation for customers by 21.7% by implementing multi-select widget answers in the health chatbot using OpenAI API and Java
  • Enhanced chatbot recommendation capabilities by researching, comparing, and integrating the best of 3 vector databases for suggesting relevant blog posts to end users
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Oregon State University

B.S. Computer Science

Sep 2019 -- Sep 2023

  • Dean's List/Honor Roll (all terms); Summa Cum Laude; GPA: 3.98/4.00

🧠Skills

📝 Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLHTMLCSSGolangCC++

⚙️ Frameworks

ReactNext.jsFastAPINode.jsExpress.jsFlask

☁️ Technologies

GitDockerPostgreSQLREST APIsClaude CodeAWSKubernetesRedis

🛠️Things I've Built

The Problem

War Thunder eSports teams needed a way to coordinate map bans during tournament matches -- no existing tool handled real-time voting with fraud prevention.

My Approach

Built a real-time voting app with Convex for live data sync, rate limiting, observability, and voting fraud prevention measures.

Key Highlights

  • Real-time map-ban voting with live sync across 127 team members
  • Productionized with rate limiting, telemetry, and fraud prevention
  • 300+ unit tests and 12+ end-to-end tests running in GitHub Actions
GitHub 🐱

The Problem

Discord users kept missing Twitch streams from their favorite creators -- existing bots were unreliable or bloated with features nobody asked for.

My Approach

Built a focused notification bot with PostgreSQL persistence and a CI/CD pipeline with 30 pytest tests running on a development server environment.

Key Highlights

  • Stream notifications serving ~250 users across 3 Discord servers
  • CI/CD pipeline with 30 pytest unit and integration tests
  • Deployed on Fly.io with PostgreSQL for reliable uptime
GitHub 🐱

💬Get In Touch

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Email

khaiphn41@gmail.com

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GitHub

github.com/Esk3tit

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LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/khai-phan

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Whether it's a project idea, a job opportunity, or you just want to talk about animation easing curves -- I'm always down to chat. Don't be a stranger.