Hey! I'm Phil (he/him). In the past I've been a developer, a manager, and a cofounder. Today I'm a staff engineer working on Postgres products at EnterpriseDB.
I am a college dropout (not by choice; stay in school!) and for the last 10 years I've chased my way down the software stack starting from humble beginnings with the venerable jQuery and PHP.
I run the NYC Systems Coffee Club, co-run the NYC Systems talk series, run an online Software Internals Book Club, and I run a Software Internals Discord that has in particular become a home for database and distributed systems developers.
I absolutely love to meet people. If you ever want to catch up, here's a little page to help me out with scheduling.
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- My blog
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- Leadership in Tech Book Club
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- NYC Systems Talk Series
- My letters
- The Archive
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- Consensus resources
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- General book recommendations
- Compiler and interpreter resources
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Videos and streaming
- Streaming on Twitch, Sundays at 5pm ET
- Stream archives on YouTube