Phil Borel is an engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading software teams across startups and fast-growing companies, currently shaping product and platform work at RIVET Work in Detroit. He has moved between founding engineer and lead roles in the Bay Area and enterprise-scale engineering at Procore and StockX, blending full-stack development chops with pragmatic delivery practices. Focused recently on agentic development and startup productization, Phil pairs technical leadership with a maker’s mentality—often organizing local developer communities to surface talent and ideas. His background includes MEAN-stack and full-stack bootcamp training plus project management certification, reflecting a practical, continuously learning approach to engineering management. Colleagues describe him as a connector who moves between hands-on coding and team enablement, bringing midwest roots and cross-coastal startup experience to bear on challenging product problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Some College Computer Science, Some College Computer Science at Oakland University
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