Mark Philpot
Senior Staff Engineer at BetterUp
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Philpot is a entrepreneurial Senior Staff Engineer with over 17 years of hands-on experience building full-stack products, distributed systems, and applied AI, now driving platform and architecture work at BetterUp. He has a track record as a founding engineer and head of engineering at startups (Heyday, Journal) where he built AI-driven knowledge platforms, semantic search, and LLM-based decision architectures while recruiting and leading small, high-performing teams. His background spans UX and front-end design through data modeling, pipelines, and cloud/security architectures, informed by earlier big-data and defense work at Lockheed Martin and a failed-but-ambitious threat-intel startup he co-founded. Comfortable shipping 0→1 products, he blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor—DevOps, security, and production scaling are recurring strengths. Based in San Carlos and trained in EECS at Duke, he pairs systems-level thinking with a practical knack for turning messy personal and organizational data into searchable, insight-driven experiences.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Duke University
Github Skills (200)
cms10
hugo10
npm-package10
bash10
logback10
sdk10
shell10
gatsby10
cli10
timber10
content-management-system10
static-site-generator10
blog-engine10
java10
go10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
markphilpot/vimrc
May 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
markphilpot/markphilpot_com
May 2015 - Feb 2020
Blog @ http://markphilpot.com
Contributions:38 PRs, 266 pushes, 58 branches in 4 years 9 months
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