Phillip Tellier
Software Portfolio
Phillip Tellier
Excited to engineer more software
https://www.linkedin.com/in/philliptellier/
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Developer
Nexera Robotics Ltd.
01/2024 – ongoing
- Replaced third-party software with an in-house computer vision pipeline for grasp detection and metric-driven pick-pose ranking; reduced vendor costs by $10,000/year and improved pick success rate by 32%
- Independently designed a PyQt/Go/gRPC application with a 3D visualizer to replay robot pick failures from Postgres logs, enabling fast root-cause analysis and saving 10–30 engineer-hours/month depending on incident volume
- Solely engineered a Python/Open3D/FCL solution for robot arm path planning involving collision checks between point clouds and 3D-geometry models (triangle meshes); reduced collisions by 43% in subsequent item tests
- Led adoption of Pulumi Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for AWS, authoring an internal hands-on tutorial and leading a workshop for engineers. This enabled team-wide adoption and reduced time to deploy by 2.5x
- Gave quarterly knowledge-sharing presentations, for example: a system design primer on Relational and NoSQL database solutions attended by 10+ cross-disciplinary engineers
- Replaced direct writes to a local Postgres database by the robot application with a Redis Streams-based message queue storing raw SQL queries, and an asynchronous dockerized worker writing to AWS RDS Postgres. This eliminated cloud write latency while enabling centralized, globally accessible data
- Built real-time Grafana dashboards and Slack alerting to monitor robot experiment metrics, enabling hardware engineers to independently track experiments and rapidly analyze robot performance
Full-stack Software Developer Co-op
DEITA Technologies Ltd.
05/2023 – 8/2023
- Developed analytics dashboards with React and Redux, enabling real-time DEI data visualization and benchmarking
- Redesigned a PostgreSQL database with Django ORM (Python-based), and wrote SQL to inspect the data
- Implemented session token-based authentication to ensure secure access to user-specific database records
- Delegated work using agile methodology; tracked progress with Jira and Trello. Reported thoroughly in daily standup
Esophageal Diseases Researcher in Bioinformatics
University of British Columbia
05/2022 – 8/2022
- Won an NSERC undergraduate student research award ($6000)
- Created Bash scripts to remotely configure and run jobs on a Linux high-performance computing cluster
- Wrote Jupyter notebooks in Python to create datascience workflows for single-cell RNA sequencing data
Laboratory Research Associate Co-op
YouCount Inc.
10/2020 – 05/2021
- Wrote Python code to extract data from medical devices into Excel spreadsheets
- Planned experiments and optimized experiment parameters
- Researched and developed device testing procedures
- Prepared SOPs, lab reports, and other technical documentation
- Presented data analysis findings in meetings
EDUCATION
2nd B.Sc. in Computer Science
University of British Columbia
Graduated 05/2024
A average (88%)
B.Sc. in Biochemistry
University of Victoria
Graduated 05/2021
A average (86%) for last two years
VOLUNTEERING
LeetCode Legends
Founder
12/2022 – 04/2023
- Put together and lead technical interview preparation workshops twice a week for over 100 unique UBC students
- Created comprehensive web based learning materials and tutorials to guide students through concepts
Bioinformatics Research Experience
Dr. Chris Upton
09/2019 – 12/2019
- Analyzing poxvirus genomes to find gene homology
Doctor’s Assistant
ISHS
10/2019 – 4/2020
- Handling clinical samples, guiding patients
Projects

Using machine learning and the scRNA-seq gene expression data of individual cells from multiple patients, predict whether individual cells of COVID-19 patients are from smokers or non-smokers.
Python
Sklearn
logistic regression
SVM
Random Forest
Languages and Technologies
Programming and Markup Languages
C++
Python
Go
R
Java
Javascript
Typescript
Bash
SQL
HTML
CSS
Sass
Latex
Technologies
Git
React
gRPC
Postgres
Docker
Express
Node
NPM
Jest
Webpack
Bootstrap
MaterialUI
Figma
Gatsby
Scikit-learn
PyTorch
PyTest
Pandas
Numpy
PyQt
Anaconda
Jupyter
Gradle
Java Swing
JUnit
Mediapipe
Netlify





