Sam Phillips
Director at Ambition is Good
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Phillips is a product-focused software leader with 16+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling engineering organisations and customer-facing products across startups and large enterprises. He’s been a co-founding CTO, developer #1 on high-growth scaleups, principal engineer for 100+ person teams, and an exited solo founder, blending deep technical craft with strategic leadership. Sam has led engineering and delivery across domains from consumer mobile apps and property management SaaS to health-critical rostering systems handling tens of millions of care hours, and he prefers TypeScript, React, Node, Ruby/Rails and Go. Known for turning engineering culture into predictable delivery, he has driven migrations to microservices, introduced continuous deployment at scale, and delivered SOC2 compliance on first attempt. He’s equally comfortable mentoring managers and shipping code himself, and often leverages no-code tools and data pipelines to accelerate product iteration. Based in Stevenage, Sam combines a historian’s analytical perspective with pragmatic, product-first engineering.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
'A' Levels History Latin English Literature General Studies, 'A' Levels History Latin English Literature General Studies at Bishop Vesey's Grammar SchoolMA Modern European History, MA Modern European History at The University of Manchester
English, Italian
Github Skills (20)
git10
javascript10
python10
css10
ruby10
jekyll10
command-line10
html10
version-control10
ruby-on-rails7
nextjs5
java4
idioms4
stubbing4
http2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samsworldofno/idioms
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 6 months
idiomsdaylanguagesday-onejava
samsworldofno/commands
Aug 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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