Phillip Rhodes
Founder President at Fogbeam Labs
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPhillip Rhodes is a founder and hands-on engineering leader with 17+ years building big data, knowledge management, and AI-enabled systems, currently running Fogbeam Labs where he combines Semantic Web, social search, and machine learning into the open-source Fogcutter platform. He brings deep full-stack experience—designing products, writing production code in Java/Groovy/JavaScript, and architecting cloud-native microservices with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Neo4J, Solr and Kubernetes—to help organizations "learn faster than the competition." Phillip pairs technical delivery with customer development, sales and partner strategy, translating complex technologies into practical management and ROI-focused solutions. His background includes cloud/AI solution design at Lenovo and big-data migrations for IBM Watson Health, and he has saved organizations significant cloud spend through platform migrations and tooling. A former volunteer Assistant Fire Chief, he also applies disciplined incident command and process-driven thinking to product development and organizational resilience.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A.G.E. General Education, A.G.E. General Education at Brunswick Community CollegeGetting and Cleaning Data course part of the Data Science Specialization Data Science, Getting and Cleaning Data course part of the Data Science Specialization Data Science at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthCertificate DevOps Essentials, Certificate DevOps Essentials at Linux AcademyA.A.S High Performance Computing, A.A.S High Performance Computing at Wake Technical Community CollegeCertificate Kubernetes from A-Z, Certificate Kubernetes from A-Z at UdemyComputer Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina WilmingtonStatistics with R, Statistics with R at Duke UniversityMachine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera. Certificate earned on April 10 2016, Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera. Certificate earned on April 10 2016 at Stanford University
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Github Skills (161)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fogbeam/jFriendOfAFriend
Sep 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 9 months
fogbeam/Hatteras
Mar 2012 - Aug 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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