Phil Mander
Chief Product And Technology Officer at Returnista
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPhil Mander is a seasoned technology and product leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling engineering organisations across Europe and Asia. As Chief Product and Technology Officer at Returnista and former VP of Technology at Harver, he has grown teams rapidly while championing practices like BDD, mob programming and trunk-based development to boost delivery and morale. He blends hands-on web architecture and frontend expertise from early roles at CMC Markets and Backbase with strategic product stewardship, making him comfortable alternating between coding cadence and executive decision-making. Based in Amsterdam, he is known for enabling happy, high-performing teams across distributed locations (Amsterdam and Colombo), and for actively recruiting talented engineers who thrive in collaborative, test-driven environments.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Internet Computing, BSc Hons Internet Computing at University of Hull
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (125)
adaptation10
cucumber-js10
mobx-react10
bunyan10
dom10
preact10
logger10
logging10
txt9
javascript9
shiny9
browser9
acl9
focus9
api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pagespace/pagespace-webcopy
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
plugin
philmander/browser-bunyan
Apr 2015 - Jun 2022
An adaptation of, the Node logging library, Bunyan specifically for the browser.
Contributions:5 releases, 127 commits, 42 PRs in 7 years 3 months
browserloggerjavascriptlogginglogging-library
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