Phil Wilt
Technical Lead AI Software Engineer at Phil Builds Things LLC
Yakima, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Wilt is a Technical Lead AI Software Engineer with 14 years of full-stack experience and a decade building scalable SaaS systems, including 4+ years delivering production AI/agentic workflows. He combines a mathematics background with hands-on engineering to design deterministic, explainable retrieval-augmented systems, embeddings, and dependency-driven execution engines that prioritize operational safety and observability. Phil has shipped customer-facing features and real-time collaborative tooling at Aha!, led serverless PII detection pipelines (earning a co-invented U.S. patent), and now architects regulated, mission-critical AI capabilities for clinical workflows at IDEXX. He also runs Phil Builds Things LLC, bridging cloud AI with robotics and physical prototyping to validate intelligence in the real world. Known for turning formal mathematical insights into practical platform primitives, he focuses on building durable, inspectable AI systems that fail safely and compound value over time.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at University of WashingtonCertificate in Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Generative AI, Certificate in Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Generative AI at Texas McCombs School of BusinessAssociate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at Edmonds CollegeRuby on Rails Development Accelerator, Ruby on Rails Development Accelerator at Code Fellows
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Github Skills (32)
graph8
terraform7
aws7
rack6
ruby-on-rails5
terraform-module5
devops5
infrastructure-as-code5
declarative5
infrastructure5
tenancy5
rails5
asset-pipeline4
hashicorp4
ruby4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aha-app/chronic_duration
Mar 2021 - Oct 2023
A simple Ruby natural language parser for elapsed time
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
deltarubynatural-languageelapsed-timeelapsed
philwilt/Dual_EC_DRBG
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 7 months
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