AI · DIGITAL PRODUCT
Consumer AI Search
Pinecone-backed RAG with OpenAI embeddings and GPT-4o synthesis, SSE-streamed across articles and forum content. Shipped to production at BiggerPockets.
- Pinecone
- OpenAI
- GPT-4o
Today's Brew -
Mattie Phillips,
player-coach engineer.
Code Brew Consulting is my independent software practice - senior, hands-on help with custom software, connected products, and engineering leadership. Nine years in, I still lead teams without ever leaving the code.
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A people-first engineer who likes the hard problems.
I'm Mattie Phillips - a software engineering leader with nine years of full-stack delivery across fintech, connected products, and digital platforms. I lead teams as a player-coach, set architecture direction, and care just as much about the engineers writing the software as the software itself. Code Brew Consulting is the practice I run when I'm building for clients directly.
- Versatile tech skill-set
- Digital products
- Fintech
- Connected products & IoT
- AI engineering
— The House Blend —
Competency map
A schematic of what I do — four core competencies down to the work that backs each one. + tap a node to explore
— House Specials —
Selected work
ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP
Engineering Team Transformation
Led a 10-person org through a cultural and technical reset at BiggerPockets - drove AI adoption from resistant to ~80%, modernized the stack, designed a career ladder, and rebuilt the product–engineering relationship.
- Leadership
- AI adoption
- Career ladder
CUSTOM SOFTWARE
Shipping & Receiving Platform
A custom .NET Core app integrated with Dynamics 365 Business Central that replaced licensed software and added a real-time production-halt safety system.
- .NET Core
- Dynamics 365
- Azure AD
CONNECTED PRODUCTS
End-to-End IoT Build-Outs
Designed and shipped connected-product systems from edge devices to cloud - serverless backends, device messaging, and a zero-downtime migration of hundreds of thousands of IoT devices to AWS.
- AWS IoT
- Azure IoT Hub
- Serverless
FINTECH
Investment Platform
Lead engineer on a highly-available, recoverable system processing financial transactions and vendor integrations, with fault-tolerant Sidekiq jobs.
- Ruby on Rails
- Sidekiq
- AWS
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Let's talk shop
Hiring, a contract, or just want to compare brewing methods — the kettle's always on.