Phil Borel
Engineering Manager at Detroit Software Developers (Meetup Group)
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil 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 UniversitySoftware Engineering & Full-stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering & Full-stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at Dev Bootcamp
Github Skills (17)
leveldb9
storage9
ordered9
database8
key-value7
java7
abstraction7
shopify6
automation-framework5
automation5
transparency5
jekyll4
laravel4
nodejs2
compose1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stockx/active_shipping
May 2017 - Aug 2017
ActiveShipping is a simple shipping abstraction library extracted from Shopify
Contributions:88 commits in 2 months
shippingabstractionabstraction-libraryshopify
pborel/polisee-coupled
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:92 commits, 156 PRs, 146 pushes in 3 months
governlaravelcommunicationtransparency
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