Abel Philips

About Me

I am a Software Engineer at Raytheon Missiles & Defense. I was previously a Master’s student at the University of Texas at Austin, where I completed my degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. You can find my resume here.

Experience

H-E-B

Digital Intern
Summers 2020 - 2022

SkillsEngine

Quality Assurance Intern
July 2019 - August 2019

University of Texas at Austin

Teaching Assistant
August 2021 - Present

Projects

PrequalsK

Fall 2021
An improvement to the project SequalsK, a bidirectional tool that transpiles Kotlin and Swift code. Our project allows for the tool to now transpile test cases from either language.

Unibloom

Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
A Flutter app that manages and optimizes schedules and tasks. It utilized a Spring Boot API built in Kotlin for its back end.

Company Security Policy

Spring 2020
We authored a report for a company covering data inventory; information valuation; and vulnerabilities and risks. We also developed access controls and an incident response plan to protect data during a security breach.

iDSpeedy

Fall 2020
An improvement to the tool iDFlakies that allows it to run faster. The tool detects “flaky” tests in open-source Java projects. The results of our experiment are detailed here. To learn more about iDFlakies and flaky tests you can read the original paper here.

Messaging Application

Spring 2019
I programmed a Java chat application that allowed for communication between several computers. It employed internet protocols, a GUI, writers, servers, multithreading, and encryption to facilitate transfer of messages.

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