Phil Strong is a founder and senior software leader with 14+ years of experience building scalable cloud and developer tooling, currently running jackedapp.ai as a solo-built AI strength coach shipped to the App Store. At AWS he led the teams behind AWS Transform, Amazon Q Developer, and CodeCatalyst, delivering platforms that saved developers 700,000+ hours and produced $83M in applied cost savings. He bridges product vision and hands-on execution—comfortable architecting high-availability deployment systems (99.998% uptime) and personally shipping full-stack products from React Native mobile apps to CDK-driven infrastructure. A repeat scale operator, he has grown engineering orgs from founding teams to 100+ engineers and driven FedRAMP and enterprise migrations across cloud environments. He experiments with AI-assisted development in production, using coding agents to accelerate end-to-end delivery and prove what a single engineer can achieve. Based in Brookeville, MD, he focuses on ambitious AI, developer tools, and consumer software where technical depth and product velocity matter.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Laplata High School
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Maryland
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