Philip Ripperger
Engineering Manager at Snowflake
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Ripperger is an engineering manager with 18 years of hands‑on and leadership experience building and running production database and platform services, currently leading the team behind Snowflake Postgres. A longtime Heroku veteran and co‑founder of a Platform Experts consultancy, he excels at diagnosing performance at the SQL, OS, and networking layers and translating those findings into operational improvements and strategic roadmaps. He’s comfortable both in the weeds—tuning queries, diagnosing disk I/O, tcpdump, and thread/process scaling—and at the executive level, shaping hiring, cost‑saving, and product direction. Distributed and remote work is second nature after 15+ years of leading dispersed teams, and he pairs strong verbal and written communication with a knack for assembling high‑performing engineering teams. Based in Colorado Springs, he brings a practical maker’s mindset—equally likely to prototype with code or tools—and a track record supporting some of the internet’s largest apps.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Southwest Baptist University
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Github Skills (30)
payment-gateway9
payment-integration9
payment9
payment-processing9
adyen9
square8
shopify7
abstraction7
recipe7
spree7
activerecord6
authorizenet6
optimization6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RemoraSoft/remora-backup-bootstrap
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pdsphil/pdsphil.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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