Phil Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and operating full-stack web platforms, primarily in Ruby on Rails and Node.js, with deep expertise on Heroku and AWS. He combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership to translate complex business needs into reliable APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable deployments—recently enabling daily deploys, trunk-based development, and a 3x faster CI migration. At companies from startups to mid-market SaaS he’s led platform migrations, cost reductions, and subscription billing integrations, and experimented with LLM integrations and AI-assisted development workflows. He maintains Ruby gems that optimize ActiveRecord behavior and integrate with Pivotal Tracker, reflecting a pragmatic open-source mindset. Based in Austin, he’s known for fostering learning cultures that treat failures as data for improvement and for pairing operational discipline with rapid delivery.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Praxis is a framework that focuses on both the design and implementation aspects of creating APIs.
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