Philip Brocoum
Software Engineering Manager

ProfileDetails

Hello hiring manager! I'm Philip, and I began my career developing withRuby on Rails at a startup in NYC in 2007. I have 10 years of Software
Engineering experience, and 4 years as a Manager and Lead Engineer.
I've climbed from Developer to Senior Developer, to Lead Developer, to
now Senior Engineering Manager leading a world-wide remote team oftwelve.

937 NW Glisan St Unit 1133
Portland OR, 97209
United States
1 (347) 701-0252
philipb@hey.com

I head up development at Watts Syncta as our Senior Engineering
Manager in Portland, OR. I build our web & mobile apps for backflow
testers and water purveyors with Ruby on Rails, RESTful APIs, React.js,and deploy via AWS to the web, App Store, and Google Play. Syncta wasacquired by Watts Water Technologies in 2018.

SkillsLeadership & Management
Hiring & Growth
Agile w/ Jira

The best way to get to know me better is through my fun website:
https://philipbrocoum.com

Full-stack development

Employment History

HTML/CSS/JS

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Syncta, Portland, ORJune 2019 — Present• Hired the development team at Syncta.
• Built our Ruby on Rails & React webapps, our iOS and Android
mobile apps, our APIs, and our AutoPhil Chrome extension.
• Brought our AWS infrastructure up to SOC 2 security compliancewith Vanta.

Lead Software Engineer at Syncta, Portland, OR
July 2018 — May 2019

Syncta provides mobile software for backflow testers and water
purveyors. I'm in charge of our Ruby on Rails app, the JSON API
that powers our iOS and Android apps, and the technology powering
SynctaOne.

Senior Software Engineer at Merit, New York, NYRuby on Rails

PostgreSQL & MySQL
React.js & Next.js
TypeScript
GraphQL/RESTAmazon AWS
DevOpsLinux & bash
git
Security w/ SOC 2February 2014 — March 2016

Merit showcases student achievements at hundreds of colleges anduniversities. Meritpages.com is the largest Rails app I've ever worked
on, comprising eight Rails apps deployed in a services architecture on
an AWS Ubuntu Linux cluster.

Hobbies

Ruby on Rails Consultant at Go Green Ride, Bayonne, NJ

Links

March 2013 — March 2014

Go Green Ride is an eco-friendly ridesharing alternative to Uber.
GoGreenRide.com and its accompanying iOS and Android apps use aRails backend that heavily utilizes geolocation services and is deployedon Rackspace using Phusion Passenger.

Poker, Mediterranean food,Chess, Sailing, Guitar, my dog
Toast!

My Personal Website
LinkedIn
Stack Overflow
GitHubFacebookTwitter

Ruby on Rails Engineer at readabout.me, New York, NY
December 2012 — February 2014

readabout.me was the predecessor to Merit, focusing primarily onstudents. The Rails app was deployed on Heroku initially, but with its
success we quickly outgrew Heroku and switched to AWS.

Ruby on Rails Full-Stack Developer at readMedia, New York, NY
October 2008 — December 2012

readMedia sends press releases to newspapers via mail merge for its
clients all over the country. I upgraded the readMedia.com Rails 2 app
to Rails 3, helped move it onto AWS, and was one of three developers
working full-time on the app for many years.

Analyst at Brightidea, New York, NYFebruary 2007 — July 2008

Brightidea provides innovation management software-as-a-service.
As one of their early employees, I helped with sales, onboarding,consulting, traveling, and running their software.

Math Teacher at NYC Department of Education, New York, NY
September 2006 — June 2007After getting my Master's degree, I taught 6–8th grade math at theShuang Wen School (P.S. 184) in Chinatown.

Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics, Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, Cambridge, MA
2001 — 2005

I have two publications: "Reflections in a Euclidean Space," and"Exploration of Reflection Holograms and Their Fringes With a
Scanning Electron Microscope."

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Math Education, New York University, NewYork, NY
2005 — 2006

I attended NYU through Math for America where I took my theoreticalknowledge of mathematics and added practical knowledge ofteaching.

References
Diana Lefavi, Director from Watts
diana.lefavi@wattswater.com · 1 (201) 450-XXXX

Jeremiah Church, Founder from Syncta
jeremiahchurch@gmail.com · 1 (503) 701-XXXX

Jason Fox, CTO from Meritjason@meritpages.com · 1 (518) 339-XXXX

Colin Mathews, CEO from Meritcolin@meritpages.com · 1 (413) 347-XXXX