Steve Phillips
Founder at Spring ACT – Action. Compassion. Technology.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Phillips is an award-winning founder and privacy-focused software engineer with 15+ years building secure, distributed systems and privacy-preserving apps from San Francisco. He's launched and led projects like LeapChat (47k+ ephemeral rooms), the Digital Safe for domestic abuse survivors (winner of international innovation awards including the Swiss Future Prize), and Relay Anonymous Messenger—a decentralized, Tor-embedded, Signal-like system that supports unlimited file transfers. Comfortable across Go, Python, and modern JS frameworks, he architects concurrent microservices, encryption-first APIs, and self-hostable tooling for developers and end users alike. An inventive cryptographer, he created CrypTag—searchable encrypted tags presented at DEF CON—and continues to prototype radical privacy UX such as anonymous, self-hostable messaging and LLM-powered news summarization (TechBytes.news). He’s also an active open-source contributor and technical writer, improving docs and concurrency fixes for projects like PostgREST and the V language.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Philosophy (double-major), Mathematics, Philosophy (double-major) at UC Santa BarbaraComputer Security, Computer Networking, Computer Science, Computer Security, Computer Networking, Computer Science at Santa Barbara City College
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Github Skills (13)
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vlang10
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compiler-compiler10
go10
documentation10
postgresql9
rest-api8
salesforce-rest-api8
data-structure5
algorithms5
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Programming languages (50)
Github contributions (5)
PostgREST/postgrest-docs
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
This repo is archived and will be merged into postgrest/postgrest soon.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Steve's contributions primarily focused on improving the documentation for the PostgREST project. Their work involved correcting typos, de-duplicating words, adding missing examples, and improving formatting within the API documentation (api.rst) and the authentication documentation (auth.rst). The changes indicate a focus on clarity, accuracy, and completeness of the documentation, making it easier for users to understand and utilize the PostgREST API.
postgrestrest-apipostgresql
vlang/v
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 10 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the V programming language repository by adding example programs and fixing minor bugs. They added examples for fetching news, generating random IPs, and implementing a FizzBuzz program. Additionally, the user corrected a typo in the array implementation and improved the cgen code to utilize a temporary variable. They also cleaned up and fixed several concurrency-related issues in the `v up` and example files.
compiled-languageprogramming-languagecompiler
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