Rusty Phillips
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at DuctWorks, LLC
Greater Orlando United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRusty Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead with 11 years of professional experience building distributed systems and developer-facing platforms. He currently leads development of a next-generation GraphQL engine at DuctWorks aimed at replacing microservice sprawl with a more unified API layer. Previously he held senior engineering roles at Klarna, flexReceipts, and Cloudspace where he shipped services across Java, Go, Ruby, Python, C#, Objective‑C, and JavaScript, and worked extensively with cloud and serverless architectures. Rusty’s background includes big-data GIS applications and a practical full‑stack fluency that lets him bridge backend systems, APIs, and client integrations. Known for pragmatic architecture decisions and hands-on leadership, he often gravitates toward tooling and platform work that reduces operational complexity. Based in Greater Orlando, he combines long-term product ownership with a penchant for open-source initiatives that push the GraphQL ecosystem forward.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (127)
javascript10
nosql10
database10
spark10
java10
scala10
locks10
data-analytics9
big-data9
sql9
smartthings9
home-assistant-integration9
pycom9
gps-tracker9
wifi9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
fireboy1919/MiThings
Apr 2017 - Jan 2020
SmartThings device & SmartApp code to integrate MiLight brand LED bulbs into the ST platform.
Contributions:19 releases, 48 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 10 months
smartappsmartthings
fireboy1919/dot-vim
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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