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Andy Phillips

Burlington,ON

Summary

Multi-talented Senior Manager skilled in recruiting and leading high-performing software development teams. Drives short- and long-term business and product growth by introducing strategic technical solutions and processes. Significant experience across the entire technical stack from databases, backend applications, frontend applications and CDN. Strong passion for improving system and application performance and growing engineers to their full potential.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager - Supplier Advertising

Wayfair
Toronto
10.2023 - Current
  • Engineering leader for a in-house Supplier Advertising team
  • Focused on building ROAS and ROI for Suppliers
  • Tech stack: React, GraphQL, Java, Python, SQL, Aerospike, Google Cloud

Engineering Manager - Digital Asset Management

Wayfair
Toronto, ON
08.2021 - 10.2023
  • Engineering manager for Wayfair's internal Digital Asset Management solution.
  • Focused on the Ingestion and Retrieval for over 1 billion assets.
  • Managing a team of engineers and overseeing technology that ranges from Golang, Java, Python with Kafka pipelines feeding into cloud storage infrastructure
  • Close integration partners with EdgeTech/CDN, Networking, AuthZ and several other key platform wide teams

Senior Manager - Sports & Platform Delivery

Rogers
Toronto, Ontario
05.2021 - 07.2021
  • Overseeing a portfolio of technical architecture and product roadmaps for high-profile Rogers Sports and Media brands such as Sportsnet, Sportsnet Now, City TV, and Breakfast Television.
  • Introducing innovative frameworks and common platforms to accelerate and standardize developer experience.
  • Guiding the technical vision for Sportsnet's OTT product and contributing to a 100% YoY growth of subscribers and revenue.
  • Continuing to spearhead initiatives to stabilize applications and infrastructure resulting in 99.9999% uptime and drastically reducing MTBF & MTTR.
  • Introducing "One Customer View" for Rogers Sports & Media to allow for greater insight and higher marketability.

Senior Engineering Manager

Rogers / Sportsnet
Toronto, Ontario
08.2018 - 04.2021
  • Managed a team of 14 developers and an Engineering Manager to deliver features and products across Sportsnet's entire product line including Sportsnet Now, Sportsnet.ca and the Mobile application.
  • Delivered end-to-end process by evaluating product requirements, leading technical architecture sessions, guiding Agile ceremonies and planning launch strategy.
  • Pushed boundaries by introducing Golang, programmatic auto-scaling, and automatic point-of-failure recovery to the overall department
  • Introduced Preferences service application to allow expanded personalized experience across all Sportsnet properties.

Engineering Manager

Rogers / Sportsnet
Toronto, Ontario
10.2015 - 08.2018
  • Managing a team of 8-10 developers to deliver scalable, high profile features for Sportsnet.ca.
  • Applications featuring React, Websockets, PHP, Wordpress, Ruby Rails / Grape, SQL and Cassandra.

Education

BAH - Classical Languages

University of Guelph
06.2005

Skills

  • Python / GO / Java / Ruby / PHP / Javascript
  • Rails / Grape / React / Angular / Laravel
  • GCP / AWS / Azure / Heroku / Terraform
  • NoSQL / SQL
  • New Relic / Datadog / Kibana
  • Aerospike / Redis / Akamai / Cloudfront
  • RabbitMQ / SQS / Lambda / Kafka
  • Agile / Scrum

Awards

  • BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD - Sportsnet Now: August 2019
  • BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD - Sportsnet Now: August 2018
  • BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD - DB Migration Projcect: February 2017
  • BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD - Sportsnet Now: June 2016

Timeline

Engineering Manager - Supplier Advertising

Wayfair
10.2023 - Current

Engineering Manager - Digital Asset Management

Wayfair
08.2021 - 10.2023

Senior Manager - Sports & Platform Delivery

Rogers
05.2021 - 07.2021

Senior Engineering Manager

Rogers / Sportsnet
08.2018 - 04.2021

Engineering Manager

Rogers / Sportsnet
10.2015 - 08.2018

BAH - Classical Languages

University of Guelph

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