Summary
Phillip Roth is a senior technology leader with 11 years of hands-on engineering and product leadership experience, currently serving as Senior Director of Technology at Volo Sports. He blends a product-first mindset with deep technical chops—having architected high-availability Go APIs at Forbes, led large-scale subscription migrations and semantic AI-driven personalization at Puck, and built core platforms from startup ground-up. Phillip excels at bridging strategy and execution: driving AI strategy, information security, and data analytics while coaching cross-functional teams through complex transitions. He’s comfortable across stacks (Go, PHP/Laravel, Vue/React, AWS/GCP) and has a proven track record of delivering zero-downtime migrations and revenue-driving platforms. Based in Cologne, he brings a pragmatic, experiment-driven approach to reducing technical debt and increasing engineering velocity, and colleagues know him as a clear communicator and mentor who pushes teams to challenge the status quo.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at County College of Morris
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology - IT Management, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology - IT Management at Purdue Global