Phil Stephenson
Senior Sales Engineer, Named Accounts at Datadog
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Stephenson is a customer-focused Senior Sales Engineer with 11 years of technical and go-to-market experience, now helping named accounts realize measurable value from observability and security platforms at Datadog. He started his career building web and full-stack systems, which gives him hands-on credibility when guiding complex evaluations, unblocking proofs-of-concept, and shaping product fit. Phil has played a direct role in driving multimillion-dollar ARR influence while mentoring peers and surfacing customer-driven roadmap feedback to engineering. Based in Portland, he combines a solutions-oriented sales engineering approach with deep empathy for customer outcomes and a rare background in political science that sharpens his communication and stakeholder alignment. Colleagues rely on him as a dependable technical partner who translates engineering trade-offs into business impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (166)
markdown10
documentation10
octopus10
release-management10
octopus-deploy10
twine10
command-line-parser9
api9
argparse9
cli9
command-line-interface9
slack-bot9
devkit9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pstephenson02/jeopardy-bot
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
:boom: A Slack bot for Jeopardy games. :boom:
Contributions:26 pushes, 8 branches, 3 comments in 10 months
gamesjeopardybotslack-botslack
pstephenson02/cs261
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 month
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