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 – 08/2023
- 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 – 08/2022
- 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
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 Languages
C++
Python
Go
Java
Javascript
Typescript
Bash
SQL
Technologies
Backend
Docker
Postgres
Redis
gRPC
AWS
Node
Express
Django
Frontend
HTML
CSS
React
PyQt
Java Swing
Webpack
Figma
Datascience and Machine Learning
Numpy
PyTorch
OpenCV
Pandas
Scikit-learn
Jupyter
Etc.
Git
Pulumi IaC





