Summary
Phil Goodwin is a Senior Staff Engineer and seasoned engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building scalable server and web systems. He blends hands-on full-stack development (Java, JavaScript, Android) with strong Agile/XP coaching, people management, hiring, and client-facing consulting skills developed at Pivotal, LinkedIn, Google and startups. Phil has led and scaled teams up to 20 engineers, directly contributing to production code and infrastructure while shepherding career growth and performance across organizations. His background includes designing inter-language RPCs, high-performance marshaling, and rebuilding complex analytics and instrumentation pipelines—work that reveals a preference for pragmatic, testable design over academic solutions. Currently helping drive engineering and delivery at Arrive Health, he’s as comfortable in deep technical problem-solving as he is resolving team-level conflicts and aligning product with engineering realities.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer