Basil Philipp
Senior AI Engineer at Oscar Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBasil Philipp is a Senior AI Engineer and founder with 10+ years building cost-efficient, production-grade AI SaaS and data platforms using Python, Django, React and Kubernetes. He has architected systems that scale to 1M+ sessions/day with 99.9% uptime, elite DORA metrics, and multi-daily releases while keeping cloud spend extremely low (platforms engineered for 10× traffic on ≈$250/mo). As a hands-on technical leader he designs event-driven backends, distributed media/ML pipelines, and analytics stacks, and hardens them with IaC, CI/CD, observability and ML runtime monitoring. He’s led small engineering teams, secured a $1M Horizon grant for IPTV analytics, and shipped production ML features such as ad-detection and personalized ad insertion. Based in Brooklyn and comfortable across global time zones, he pairs founder-level product judgment with deep execution experience in developer-adjacent platforms, climate/energy, and geospatial domains.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Systems at University of Zurich
English, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (52)
keyboard9
karabiner9
tiddlywiki9
hammerspoon9
plaintext9
beancount8
obsidian8
knowledge-graph8
knowledge-management8
chat8
knowledge-representation8
markdown8
llamacpp7
driver7
image-recognition7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BasilPH/vizel
May 2020 - Apr 2022
Zettelkasten visualization and stats🤩🗒
Contributions:8 releases, 40 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 11 months
knowledge-representationreacttiddlywikiknowledge-graphstats
genistat-ag/handbook
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
We use the handbook to discuss and document how we work together.
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 months
discusshandbookhow-we-work
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