Chris Phillips
CTO at Mindmatrix
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Phillips is a seasoned CTO and software architect with over a decade of experience building both embedded microcontrollers and enterprise software systems. He began programming at 12 and brings deep low-level expertise in ASM and microOS design alongside extensive C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET and SQL experience. At MindMatrix he has driven architecture and technical leadership while also contributing to open-source language development—improving core type-system and array semantics in the Beef programming language. He’s currently focused on an industrial HVAC controller project that combines constrained firmware development (Atmel ATtiny with 2KB code and ~128B RAM) with predictive failure and energy-saving algorithms. Known for squeezing functionality out of minimal hardware, he blends hands-on implementation skills with strategic product vision.
12 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (11)
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programming-language10
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beef10
data-structure9
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data-structures9
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c-language8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
beefytech/Beef
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Beef Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 201 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the core logic of the Beef programming language, focusing on implementing and refining type system functionalities. The contributions include adding `IsArray` and `IsSizedArray` properties to the `Type` class and providing support for array creation within the `corlib` and `minlib` libraries. Further refinements involved fixing issues related to object creation with arrays, and improving the handling of zero-count arrays, thus enhancing core functionalities of the programming language. The user also made enhancements to the text editor widget within the Beef language.
beef-languagecompileridebeefbeef-programming-language
xposure/MiniCraft.NET
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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