Phillipe Sagot is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building product-focused platforms across mobile, web and data domains, currently at Shopify and co-founder/CTO of Peel Insights. He has led mobile engineering at Lifesum—helping the app earn repeated Apple and Google features—and scaled MakeSpace’s platform as they expanded into 20 new markets. Comfortable shipping across stacks (Python/Django, Go, iOS/Android), Phillipe combines hands-on engineering with platform architecture and data-driven product decisions. His background includes founding a location-aware game studio that gained TechCrunch attention, plus enterprise Java/Spring consulting and cluster computing research, reflecting a rare blend of startup grit and systems-level expertise. Based in New York with roots across Europe and Latin America, he brings both international perspective and a track record of building teams from scratch to production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B. S. Degree, Computer Science, B. S. Degree, Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC)
Bachelor, secondary education, Bachelor, secondary education at Marista School of Alajuela
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