Phil Swenson
Senior Engineering Manager at Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Swenson is a senior engineering manager with 20+ years of hands-on software and systems experience and a decade in leadership roles, currently leading engineering at Hyatt from his Denver base. He blends full-stack development chops—Ruby, Java, Go, Rails, native iOS—with cloud-native delivery expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and observability to ship resilient SaaS and mobile products. Phil has repeatedly driven automation and platform initiatives (CI/CD, Kubernetes installs, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring) that scaled developer productivity across large organizations. He’s comfortable switching hats between coder, architect, and manager, having built microservices, middleware for high-throughput XML processing, and native mobile integrations. A pragmatic evangelist for tooling and process, he has a track record of introducing Git, Gradle, TDD practices, and automated promotion pipelines company-wide. Outside day jobs he co-founded product side projects and maintains a developer-focused perspective grounded in real customer-facing applications.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Stackoverflow
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115questions
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Github Skills (192)
kubernetes10
go10
installer10
docker10
charts9
kubectl9
api9
lambda9
serverless-applications9
controller9
switch9
build-automation9
scheduling9
sam9
aws9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Comcast/http-blackbox-test-tool
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
pswenson/jenkins-docker-dood-slave
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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