Phillip Pearson Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

June 2021 - present: ChromeOS Gaming team. Borealis platform: bringing Steam games to ChromeOS.November 2016 - June 2021: Serverless Languages team, working on the Python runtimes for Google App Engine.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

I was the infrastructure guy in the new tiny Ning team, working to keep it going outside Mode Media.

Brisbane, California, Us

I worked on backend (but not business-logic-agnostic) code for the Ning social network application, writing PHP, Java, and Python, and occasionally Javascript, HTML and CSS. With Python, I scripted deployments and database migrations, and write tools to make debugging and emergency handling easier. I taught people how Git and Maven work.2015-2016:- Mode Media Mode.com infrastructure team: Automating Mode deployments (Python, Ansible), extending our deployment tool to manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, OpenStack), dependency management (Maven, RPM).2014:- Ning Infrastructure team lead: Database schema upgrade automation, code archeology (tracing bugs through multiple layers of mostly-forgotten Java services).2013:- Ning Platform team: Supporting the new Ning 3.0 platform with changes to signup (PHP), billing, network creation/upgrade (Java).2012:- Ning Infrastructure team: Switching components out / rewriting things to allow code removal (PHP), database migration automation (Python), A/B testing.2011:- Ning Infrastructure team: Spam fighting, integration engineering (PHP).- Git (Gitosis) server administration.2010:- Ning Everywhere Platform team: API, new theme design studio (PHP/JS).- Deployment automation (Python).2009:- Ning Application Development team: General PHP/JS/CSS/HTML- Ning Virtual Gifts team: Frontend for VG feature

I worked on the core Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.com/) application (Ruby on Rails), and the "Friends on Fire" Facebook application (http://apps.facebook.com/on-fire/, PHP/Javascript).

From time to time, I helped out Confabb with Rails development and system administration.

Myelin was my consulting business. Previously available for Rails, C++, PHP, Python, Javascript, embedded development, or any other interesting software-related work.

From time to time I did C/C#/Python development for I.L.R.

Us

2005: aSmallWorld optimization (PHP, MySQL), OpenLazslo experimentation, news aggregation (Python, PHP), WebOutliner (UserTalk, PHP, JavaScript), Structured Blogging (PHP, Perl).2006: AIMSpace Modules (JavaScript, Java)2006-2007: PeopleAggregator (PHP+Python+MySQL), System administration (Linux, Xen, Python)

Drummondville, Québec, Ca

Was the first full-time employee on the MyReader auto-reader project. Kicked off the document analysis research/development project inside Humanware, and was responsible for the display/formatting code. C/C++, plus some build and download scripts in Python.2007: Returned as a contractor to do some C# development on the PC side of the KeySync address book / calendar sync system, to increase reliability/usability.