Peter Philips
Co-Founder, CTO at TechForProgress
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Philips is a seasoned founder and CTO with 13 years of experience building mission-driven web products and platforms from Oakland. He co-founded recognizeapp.com and PlanetIO, blending hands-on engineering with product strategy to create employee appreciation and recognition systems. His background spans full-stack development, open-source contributions to projects like CruiseControl.rb (including Rails 3.2 compatibility fixes), and leadership roles in nonprofit and startup settings. Trained in computer science and biology, he combines technical rigor with a systems-thinking approach informed by permaculture and hardware hacking interests. Peter is skilled at translating complex requirements into reliable, user-focused solutions and enjoys tinkering across software, hardware, and sustainable practices.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Biology, BS Computer Science Biology at The City University of New York
Github Skills (9)
minitest10
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
unit-test10
testing10
test-automation9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/cruisecontrol.rb
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
CruiseControl for Ruby. Keep it simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on updating and fixing existing tests and configurations related to Rails 3.2 compatibility within the CruiseControl.rb project. They addressed routing issues, corrected email testing procedures, and modified build-related tests. Furthermore, the user implemented configuration adjustments, including namespace modifications and updated dependencies to align with the specified Rails version.
cruisecontrolruby
synth/rails_mail
Jan 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:13 reviews, 81 PRs, 111 pushes in 10 months
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