Phil Smy
Founder Chief Engineer at Zonmaster
Sendai, Japan
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Top SchoolPhil Smy is a founder and hands-on Chief Engineer with 11+ years of professional experience rescuing and building Ruby on Rails SaaS products, from early startups to operational platforms supporting thousands of users. He founded ZonMaster (an Amazon CRM for sellers) and played CTO at Toygaroo—experience that includes pitching on Shark Tank and running live, real-time systems across hundreds of locations. Phil specializes in fast, empathetic “Rails Rescue” work: modernizing legacy apps, squashing deployment nightmares, and stabilizing production for solo founders and small teams. He also runs From Monkey to Mogul, a practical platform to help developers become entrepreneurs, and brings a creative edge from a background in film, music, and rural living in Japan—yes, he grows tomatoes while shipping code.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, MBA type things, Executive MBA, MBA type things at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyNCIVSMaster of Arts (MA), Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Master of Arts (MA), Film/Cinema/Video Studies at Staffordshire UniversityJazz Composition, Jazz Composition at Mohawk College
English, Japanese, Dutch, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
4,798reputation
245kreached
25answers
74questions
Github Skills (190)
chartjs-plugin10
amazon-marketplace10
mws10
google-charts10
highcharts10
amazon10
activemodel10
chartjs10
amazon-mws10
shared9
mws-api9
generative-art9
padrino9
inpainting9
bootstrap9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
philsmy/peddler
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 pushes in 3 years 10 months
apiamazonrubymws-apiamazon-mws
philsmy/active_shipping
Aug 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
shippingabstractionabstraction-libraryshopify
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