Phillip Burch
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Burch is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building front-end and full-stack systems for games, advertising, and large-scale web platforms. Currently at Microsoft after impactful senior roles at Elastic and AdColony, he combines strong JavaScript expertise with practical AWS, SQL and NoSQL skills to deliver reliable, user-focused interfaces. At Elastic he contributed notable UI improvements to the widely used Kibana project—adding monitoring tools, navigation refinements, and Logstash pipeline views—demonstrating a knack for improving observability and developer workflows. He has led engineering teams and product-facing projects from startups to enterprise, blending hands-on coding with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. Based in Dallas, Phillip is comfortable navigating both legacy systems and modern cloud-native stacks, and often surfaces usability wins that quietly reduce operational friction.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Tarleton State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
user-interface10
kibana10
react10
dashboard9
logstash9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
ui-design8
html6
abstract6
cross-browser6
api6
css6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Aug 2019 - Nov 2021
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:77 reviews, 130 commits, 265 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily focused on enhancing the user interface within the Kibana platform, specifically within the monitoring application. Their contributions included adding a monitoring toolbar with a date picker, adding breadcrumb support, and fixing bugs related to the "manage views" button and closing popups. These changes involved modifications to React components and overall navigation structure. The user also worked on Logstash related UI components such as pipeline views.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
phillipb/bible-verse-parser
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Lightweight library for parsing bible references in a string
Contributions:31 commits, 18 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 2 months
religiousbiblestringbible-referencesparsing
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