Alex Phillips
Site Reliability Architect at Envestnet | Yodlee
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Phillips is a Site Reliability Architect with 12 years of experience building and operating high-traffic, scalable platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He combines full-stack development skills (PHP, NodeJS, Python, SQL) with strong Linux and AWS systems expertise, having led a major datacenter-to-AWS migration and driven public-facing applications for large media sites. Alex has moved between hands-on engineering and technical leadership roles—from Director of Technology to senior cloud architect—and now focuses on reliability and architecture at Envestnet | Yodlee. An active open-source contributor, he has improved both front-end and back-end of popular projects like the Koel music server and hardened backend features for Lychee photo management. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs a CS degree from NC State with a practical knack for automating workflows and improving metadata and media processing pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (33)
database-migrations10
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
extraction10
metadata10
laravel10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
vue10
database-migration10
metadata-extractor10
information-extraction10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
LycheeOrg/Lychee
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality and maintainability of the photo management system. Their contributions included implementing API key authentication, addressing security vulnerabilities, and introducing features like ghostbusting dead symlinks and XMP sidecar metadata handling. They also made enhancements to album path retrieval and improved the import and sync processes, which resulted in improvements to image processing and metadata management.
management-systemphoto-galleryphoto-managementphotographygreat
koel/koel
Mar 2016 - May 2016
🐦 A personal music streaming server that works.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 124 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed significantly to the front-end and back-end aspects of the Koel music streaming server. They enhanced the user interface by adding features like album and artist navigation within song lists and context menus. They also implemented new features to sort songs, added track number support, and fixed database references. Furthermore, they made changes to the API to support transcoding functionality.
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