Phil Genera
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Google
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Genera is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager based near Boston with 18+ years in production-critical infrastructure, currently leading Google's Health SRE team focused on compliance, cost, and engineering productivity. He brings deep, hands-on expertise across SRE, global load balancing, and high-throughput networking, having built the first load balancer for a major L7 proxy and run video transcoding/upload sites that evolved into Google Cloud Storage. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor and manager, he has shipped systems serving massive scale—billions of users or terabits/sec—and prefers solving complex, incentive-driven failure modes in real-world systems. A pragmatic engineer with a knack for product-focused reliability, he also contributes to embedded/IoT projects like an ESPHome Mitsubishi heat pump integration, showing curiosity beyond core infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science & Psychology, BS, Computer Science & Psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (9)
esp826610
esp3210
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
esphome10
home-automation9
sys9
serial-communication9
embedded9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
geoffdavis/esphome-mitsubishiheatpump
May 2020 - Jun 2020
ESPHome Climate Component for Mitsubishi Heatpumps using direct serial connection
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Phil contributed significantly to the ESPHome component for Mitsubishi heat pumps. Their work focused on implementing and refining control mechanisms, including handling different operating modes (cool, heat, dry, auto, fan-only) and setting target temperatures. The user also integrated and optimized the interaction with the heat pump's serial interface, and made changes to reflect the running state of the heat pump. Further improvements involved storing and loading setpoints, mirroring the functionality of an IR remote.
hvacmitsubish-comfortclimateserialesp8266
pgenera/home-assistant
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
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