Steve Phillips Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Relay is essentially decentralized, anonymous Signal for teams.Specifically, Relay:(1) Embeds the Tor daemon for serious anonymity,(2) Doesn't require an email address or phone number (or anything else) to create an account,(3) Is decentralized (you can run your own Relay server!),(4) Lets you share files of *any* size, and(5) Enables you to organize a.

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I was brought in to design and lead the building of a Digital Safe for domestic abuse survivors to securely store evidence of their abuse to later show to law enforcement.I invented a number of techniques to make this practical and convenient for users while also being highly secure.We launched the Digital Safe in October 2022. In the 13 months since.

I've been awarded a FUTO Fellowship to give me the space, time, and money to focus on adding awesome new features to LeapChat, an ephemeral, end-to-end encrypted chat app that has hosted 30,000+ chat rooms since inception!The FUTO Fellowship grant money is no-strings-attached, aside from: (1) your software be open source. (2) Don't Be Evil; don't steal.

Simple, affordable, secure task management, with built-in encrypted chat, file sharing, and confetti -- lots of confetti.

My recent freelance software projects have included:- Writing microservices in Go on AWS (MySQL)- Writing APIs in Flask (CouchDB)- Building large Django web apps (Postgres)

During my tenure, Pursuance:- Built and launched LeapChat, end-to-end encrypted ephemeral chat in the browser, which has since been used by thousands without needing to install any software- Unveiled the first demo of the Pursuance software system at Aaron Swartz Day in San Francisco- Had two talks accepted into RightsCon, a human rights-centric technology.

Secure mobile and desktop apps for activists, journalists, and you.CrypTag was originally unveiled at the DEF CON security conference, also known as "the world's largest underground hacker conference", in August 2015.CrypTag is the only technology in the world that can encrypt data, tag it, and query it without decrypting it first, and do so without.

Wikipedia defines a makerspace (aka "hackerspace") as "a location where people with common interests, usually in computers, technology, science or digital or electronic art can meet, socialize and/or collaborate. A hackerspace can be viewed as an open community labs incorporating elements of machine shops, workshops and/or studios where hackers can come.

222Labs is a meta-startup working on a slew of ideas, ranging from SaaS products to electronics and Internet of Things (IoT). So far we've built applications using various fun technologies, including Go, Python, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53), Docker, CoreOS/Fleet/Etcd, and many more.

We're revolutionizing the way people use the Internet and helping users protect themselves from suspicionless surveillance all in one fell swoop. Read more about us and our flagship project, arkOS, at https://arkos.io.(I relinquished my position to focus on local freelance programming and my philosophical writings.)

Syndicate Pro is a financial technology company created to disrupt the syndicate market with a more data-driven, quantified approach to IPO investing.What I've done:- Created a highly concurrent, efficient Go program that is doing ~100 things at any given moment, and which serves as the backbone of our software stack. It has never crashed in production.

OpenWeb Engineering specializes in highly scalable custom web development. We leverage one or more clouds to achieve high-availability, so your web app keeps working even in the event of server failure.

PTM turns big ideas into valuable software products.I found and closed clients, recruited both employees/in-house contractors, managed our Linux servers, and most importantly, built the majority of the back end of the apps/sites/products we made using Python/Django.

Dead-simple, instant citations for students. How to use the product:1. Highlight an ISBN or DOI in your browser2. Click bookmarklet3. Choose MLA, APA, or Chicago-style formatting, copying the citation to your clipboard4. Paste the pre-formatted citation into your Works Cited page!The entire process takes < 5 seconds. Pretty cool.At Startup Weekend EDU.

FactCheck.me began using NLP (Natural Language Processing) to turn facts into multiple choice tests.I wrote the Django back-end and created the JavaScript bookmarklet. With the demo version, users could highlight a number-containing fact on any website, click the bookmarklet to POST that sentence to the FactCheck.me server, then log into FactCheck.me to.

Dead-simple call conferencing for small businesses.Instead of forcing everyone who's scheduled to take part in a conference call to remember about the call in the first place, phone in on time, dial the 10-digit phone number, then type in a 4 to 9-digit room number that was emailed to them -- which is especially painful when you're on the go -- we decided.

Santa Barbara, CA, US

Created Python/Django-based web app to: (1) Store and retrieve virtual graffiti (images) created and posted by iPhone our users; (2) Display graffiti to our web visitors; (3) Block forged requests to upload inappropriate content (arbitrary images not created with the iPhone app).

Santa Barbara, CA, US

After taking the CNEE 125 and 126, each 5-unit networking classes, I was offered a job to tutor other students in the networking lab.I taught computer networking (with an emphasis on sub-netting), maintained virtual Linux servers, and helped students train for the CCNA exam.In the summer of 2010 I helped teach CNEE 120: Fundamentals of Network Security. I.

Created web-based test engine from scratch using Python and Django. Managed git repositories on staging and production servers. This was my first-ever product, and I learned _so_ much from building it.

I tutored dozens of high school and college students in many types of math, from pre-Algebra through Calculus, while spending the rest of my time teaching myself Python/Django web development so I could some day make a living writing code. It worked:-).

Phillips Technologies was a technology consultancy focused on teaching others how to use Linux and other free and open source server software. Our primary product, produced by Jeff Fuller and I, was "Linux Network Administration", a 57-page lab manual meant to teach students how to install, configure, and administer their very own Ubuntu server.The booklet.

Solved software, hardware, and networking problems for clients, including but not limited to the (re-)configuration of client software, server software, and recovering lots of SPARCSTATION 10 passwords by using a combination of floppy disks, SSH, and John the Ripper.I was then offered a position performing FreeBSD tech support, but declined due to time.

Mathematics, Philosophy (Double-Major)

Computer Security, Computer Networking, Computer Science