Impact
Over the years I've led engineering orgs through scale, restructuring, and AI-driven transformation. Today, I bring that experience directly to startups and growth companies, helping them build resilient teams, scalable platforms, and AI-enabled products.
Explore highlights from recent engagements below, and check out myLinkedIn recommendations for additional perspectives.
Plus Company
Leadership Highlights
- Built an AI R&D task force that shipped two generations of an AI-powered SaaS platform.
- Partnered with AWS on a joint go-to-market motion to accelerate adoption.
- Instituted DevFinOps capitalization/reporting processes still in use today.
"Phil is a remarkable leader with deep technical expertise and a unique ability to build and scale complex operations and communicate those to board and C-level audiences as well as entire business organizations."
— Michael Cohen, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
"Phil brought clarity, focus, and energy to the team, whether it was hiring key talent, building a culture of learning and experimentation, or driving technical innovation in emerging areas like Generative AI."
— Stephen Williams, CEO, Marketing Evolution
Clear Capital — Data Team Lead/Cloud Architect
Leadership Highlights
- Restructured engineering teams and reset culture in just 9 months.
- Laid the cloud & DevOps foundation for a major new product line.
- Impact continued long after departure — effectively a consulting-style engagement.
"Phil brings structure and process to engineering teams. He improves the way people work together, establishes discipline around quality and testing, and makes complex initiatives more predictable and transparent. The result is not just stronger technology, but stronger teams."
— Erik Allen, Chief Data Scientist
Laguna Creek — DevOps & Infrastructure
Consulting Engagement
- Context: Preparing for a V1 launch with limited automation and scaling concerns.
- What I did: Built AWS infra with Terraform/Terragrunt, CI/CD pipelines, automated scaling, and security improvements.
- Results: Reduced release risk, faster iteration, investor-ready.
"He was instrumental in getting Laguna Creek off the ground technically, giving us the technical strategy and execution we needed to launch confidently."
— Wyatt Gilmore, Founder/CEO, Laguna Creek
Echelon Data Science
Consulting Engagement
- Context: Echelon needed execution capacity for client DevOps, backend, and ML projects.
- What I did: Delivered DevOps/MLOps design and execution (for Echelon clients) with reusable patterns.
- Results: On-time delivery and pipeline patterns the team can reuse.
"Phil partnered with us at Echelon to deliver critical architectural and infrastructure work for our clients. He has a rare ability to zoom between strategy and execution… one day helping design scalable systems, the next day diving into code to make it real."
— Erik Allen, CTO