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Philip Snyder

Growth engineer & reverse engineer. I build small, fast systems across security, growth, and data pipelines that move real metrics.

About

I got into tech selling game cheats in high school, which is how I fell into cybersecurity, CTFs, and reverse engineering. By 2022 my team ranked #74 in the U.S. and I was living in botting and anti-bot systems.

So I taught myself full-stack engineering to build the systems I used to hack. I interned twice at Odoo (first time-series forecasting for their charts, then an AI chatbot for their CRM), pioneered micro1's paid marketing (over $200K deployed profitably, with one inbound closing an 8-figure contract), and joined Delphi as their first intern, where I cut analytical queries from nine minutes to sub-10ms and built the growth infrastructure behind their pricing experiments.

I graduated in 2026, and now I'm a founding engineer at Interfere (YC S25) in New York, building observability SDKs and high-volume OTEL and error ingest on ClickHouse with AI-driven investigation. I do my best work where cybersecurity, growth, and data meet.

Now

Founding Engineer

@ Interfere (YC S25) · New York City

Building the observability platform: telemetry streams in, and AI turns it into findings and fixes.

Experience

Founding Engineer
Interfere · YC S25
Aug 2025 - Present
New York, NY

Shipping observability SDKs with session replay and source-map stack resolution, designing high-volume error and OTEL ingest on ClickHouse, and leading enrichment, triage, and AI investigation services.

Growth Engineer
Delphi · Internship
May 2025 - Aug 2025
SF Bay Area

Built growth infrastructure spanning subscription billing refactors, pixel integrations, custom-audience automations, and analytics pipelines to accelerate pricing experiments and data-driven acquisition.

Full Stack Engineer
Delphi · Internship
May 2024 - Dec 2024
SF Bay Area

Cut analytical query times from nine minutes to sub-10ms via Materialize, deployed enterprise SSO with JWT, and built compliant SMS/voice infrastructure on Twilio.

Growth Marketing Consultant
micro1 · Part-time
May 2023 - Feb 2024
Remote

Pioneered micro1's paid marketing function, profitably deploying $200K+ across X, LinkedIn, and Google Ads, with one campaign-attributed inbound closing an 8-figure contract.

Full Stack Engineer
Odoo · Internship
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Buffalo, NY

Built an AI in-product chat assistant for Odoo CRM with custom tool-calling for meeting scheduling, invoice generation, and lead ranking from a single interface.

Full Stack Engineer
Odoo · Internship
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Buffalo, NY

Extended Odoo's native chart and graph views with universal time-series forecasting, integrating Meta's Prophet model for trend prediction across any dataset.

Bus Boy
Sinatra's Restaurant · Part-time
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Buffalo, NY

Bussed tables at a fine Italian restaurant. Character building in the way that makes you never want to bus tables again.

Computer Science, B.S.
Rochester Institute of Technology · Graduated 2026
2022 - 2026
Rochester, NY

Web & mobile computing with a focus on systems programming.

Writing