Philip Scott
Co-founder And CEO at Hyperbeam API (YC W22)
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilip Scott is a founder and CEO with a decade of software engineering experience, currently leading Hyperbeam and Hyperbeam API from Waterloo, Ontario to build embeddable shared web browsers for synchronous online experiences. He combines hands-on product and engineering leadership—taking prototypes to YC-backed startups—with deep technical roots from a Computer Software Engineering program at the University of Waterloo and internships across Yahoo, Lumina, and other early roles. Philip has steered both consumer-facing watch-together experiences and a developer-focused API product, signaling a shift from end-user product to platform thinking. Known for shipping pragmatic, scalable web systems, he blends full-stack fluency with founder-level business judgment and a knack for turning real-time web challenges into developer-friendly APIs.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (200)
neo4j10
api10
nodejs10
dataloader10
css10
code-generator10
continuous-delivery10
graphql-tools10
ajax10
continuous-integration10
mysql10
wink10
postgresql10
noise10
javascript10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ScottyFillups/haxwheels
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
A multiplayer racing game
Contributions:58 commits, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 12 days
gameracingmultiplayercolyseusracing-game
philipjscott/simple-thumbnail
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
A library that produces thumbnails from images, videos and URLs :mag_right:
Contributions:24 releases, 44 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 5 months
urlsimagethumbnailsvideosjavascript
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