Hello

July 23, 2024

Hello!

My name is Christopher Phillips. I’ve worked in software engineering for the better part of 8 years in the Washington DC area.

You can find out all you need to know about me here:

Github: spiffcs

Languages/Skills

• Golang
• Rust
• Typescript
• Postgres
• AWS
• Kubernetes

Education

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
May 2012 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Experience

Anchore | Senior Software Engineer

August 2021 - Current - Washington, DC

• Contribute critical updates to Anchore open source supply chain security projects Syft and Grype with over 9k GitHub stars.
• Use Golang, Python, and Rust to develop new internal and external-facing tooling for vulnerability analysis and remediation.
• Prepare and present talks on supply chain security for audiences of over 150 people at KubeCon 2022 and GitHub Universe 2023.
• Run multiple open-source webinars and community presentations on supply chain security.
• Assist sales/customer groups to bridge tech between OSS and enterprise.

Capital One | Principal Software Engineer

January 2019 - August 2021 - McLean, VA

• Lead development on multiple API/Microservices for card acquisitions pipeline totaling $150 million in revenue.
• Contribute critical functionality to internal Kubernetes and container deployments.
• Contribute critical features for internal cloud tooling and container orchestration.
• Mentor individual junior developers on career growth for the individual contributor track.

TDI Security | Senior Software Engineer

December 2017 - January 2019 - Washington, D.C.

• Build internal infrastructure and tooling to enable product pipeline delivery.
• Deliver vulnerability ingestion subroutine to view time series progression of risk remediation across multiple cloud environments.
• Implement API for consumers to view security scores for given environments based on time to remediation for different categories of vulnerabilities.

General Dynamics | Software Engineer

October 2016 - December 2017 - Reston, VA

• Employ expertise in Javascript, Ruby, Python, Yaml, Docker, and networking in API development within an enterprise AWS environment.
• Maintain deep hands-on technical knowledge of infrastructure as code for the cloud team’s shared service and application infrastructure.
• Design and build automation services that integrate with 3rd party and internal APIs and software.