Phil Wittig is a product and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building startups and developer-facing platforms from seed-stage ventures to corporate launches. Based in San Francisco, he founded and scaled Kindamagic (YC S21), co-founded Howdy Labs, and led product and engineering at Canvas through its acquisition, before shaping Workers AI as Director of Product at Cloudflare. He now runs Devranch as Head Rancher, focusing on making ML and developer tooling more accessible—continuing a pattern of turning research and prototypes into weekly-shipping products. Known for blending hands-on engineering with strategic product vision, he’s comfortable navigating both startup scrappiness and enterprise-grade launches. An operator who repeatedly runs the founder-to-exit loop, he brings practical execution and developer empathy to AI and cloud-native tooling.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kindamagic (S21), Kindamagic (S21) at Y Combinator
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 7 branches in 24 days
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