Phong Lam

Senior Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
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Summary

Senior software engineer with 8+ years building and scaling full-stack TypeScript products across enterprise, e-commerce, on-demand logistics, web3, and fintech. Focused on front-end architecture and developer experience, with a track record of shipping developer-facing platforms, SDKs, and payment flows and leading rewrites and migrations others build on. Coaching engineers through technical interviews since 2021.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Circle

Sep 2025 — Present
New York, United States · Fintech / Stablecoin payments
  • Core engineer on the team that built Arc Studio from scratch for the 2026 Arc blockchain launch: an AI-powered studio for building onchain apps, payments, stablecoins, and agents from plain-language prompts, with live preview and onchain tracing
  • Core engineer on the team that built Onramp from scratch for the Arc launch: an embeddable App Kit SDK widget for buying USDC/EURC on Arc with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or bank transfer, shipped as @circle-fin/onramp-kit
  • Main developer of the Circle Developer Console, the self-serve hub where developers manage API keys, complete KYB, and enable App Kit capabilities such as Onramp
  • Led development of an internal developer experience portal and streamlined tooling and processes for engineers across Circle’s core products

Software Engineer · Mysten Labs

Mar 2023 — Sep 2025
Palo Alto, United States · Blockchain / Web3
  • Contributed to the launch of Slush wallet across web, iOS, and Android, serving millions of users
  • Led USDC integration and designed on/off-ramp flows for buying and selling tokens, partnering with Coinbase
  • Led in-wallet swap/trading integration and built portfolio performance and coin-breakdown visualizations in React Native
  • Modernized and rebuilt the suins.io frontend after inheriting it from contractors, improving code quality and UI consistency; worked extensively on the Sui block explorer

Software Engineer · DoorDash

Mar 2021 — Mar 2023
San Francisco, United States · On-demand logistics
  • Led full-stack rewrite of the Menu Editor for web and mobile (via WebView), reducing support tickets by 27% and impacting 100% of merchants
  • Boosted Merchant Mobile app engagement by 20% through UI/UX improvements and new photo-editing tools (40k+ new photos uploaded post-launch)
  • Unified the Menu Editor into the Merchant Portal, consolidating logging and metrics and paving the way for load-time and performance improvements

Senior Software Engineer · Walmart Global Tech

Sep 2018 — Mar 2021
San Bruno, United States · E-commerce
  • Drove front-end architecture for e-commerce item pages; led the React 15 → 16 migration for Home Category, reducing tech debt and improving developer velocity
  • Architected an internal Observers library to standardize web API integration and optimize DOM performance across the Home vertical
  • Implemented the first infinite scroll on Walmart’s Home Category page (blog post)
  • Designed the Curated Feed backend on Azure with Node.js and Cassandra for multi-region scale

Software Engineer · IBM

Jan 2018 — Sep 2018
Emeryville, United States · Enterprise SaaS
  • Reimplemented the IBM Aspera on Cloud front end (AngularJS → Angular 4) for media customers serving hundreds of millions of users; delivered streaming infrastructure for the FIFA World Cup 2018 launch

Skills

Languages
TypeScript · JavaScript · Node.js · SQL
Front-end
React · React Native · Expo · Next.js · Angular · GraphQL · Storybook · Tailwind
Back-end & infra
Hono · Cloudflare Workers · Postgres · Redis · MongoDB · Cassandra · Azure · Firebase · CI/CD
Domains
Stablecoin payments (USDC/EURC) · Fiat on/off-ramps · EVM & Sui ecosystems · SDK and developer-platform design · AI-assisted developer tooling

Education

University of Washington, Seattle · B.S. Biochemistry