Christopher Phillips
Senior Software Engineer at Anchore
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native systems and developer tooling, currently advancing container security and observability at Anchore. He brings strong backend expertise in Golang and Rust, plus five years of professional AWS and Kubernetes work, and practical TypeScript/JavaScript fluency across UIs and automation. His open-source contributions include meaningful backend and DevOps work on well-known projects like Syft and Grype, improving SBOM generation and vulnerability scanning pipelines. Christopher pairs infrastructure automation and CI/CD know-how with hands-on debugging and logging improvements that make production systems more reliable. A UNC Chapel Hill honors graduate, he combines enterprise and startup experience—from Capital One to General Dynamics—to translate product vision into operable, scalable software. Colleagues value that he treats code as audience-facing craft, whether shaping APIs, observability, or developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Peace War and Defense, Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Peace War and Defense at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (36)
scripting10
vulnerability-scanners10
testing10
sbom10
conditionals10
condition10
logical10
cicd10
go10
wsl210
powershell10
shell10
scanning10
filesystem9
container9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
anchore/syft
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1106 reviews, 120 commits, 975 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Syft tool, making changes to the core code and functionality. The user was also focused on developing components for generating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from container images and filesystems. Additionally, the user contributed to improvements and maintenance related to code base by removing and updating different files. The contributions included file permissions.
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anchore/grype
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:436 reviews, 71 commits, 601 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the `grype` vulnerability scanner. They implemented and refined the RPM matcher, modifying tests and incorporating source package name updates. The user also contributed to the build process, adding options and dependencies to handle Windows builds and improve the release pipeline through enhancements related to github actions. They demonstrated expertise in Go by updating dependencies, adding functions, improving the logging, and modifying code.
security-vulnerabilityfilesystemsvulnerability-scannersocivulnerabilities
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