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Building thoughtful software remotely in Colorado

Hello, I'm Phil

Software Engineer shipping delightful products to millions of people.

I'm a software engineer at Microsoft in Windsor, Colorado. I turn complex product and platform challenges into reliable, approachable experiences across frontend, backend, cloud, and AI systems.

9+ Years

Shipping software at scale

Cloud + AI

Building intelligent products with frontier models

AI-native engineering

Using agents and automation to ship faster without sacrificing quality

Selected work

Projects built with curiosity

Open-source tools, experiments, and products I work on outside of work.

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Workflows Agent home in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Workflows Agent

Microsoft product

An agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot that turns natural-language requests into working automations across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Planner, and more.

I improved agent quality by 15% through prompt engineering and systematic agent evaluations.

Microsoft 365 CopilotAI agentsEvaluations
Tempus dashboard showing scheduled Copilot-powered repository prompts and recent runs

Tempus

FeaturedPrivate source

A cloud prompt scheduler for dependable, recurring Copilot-powered repository work with on-demand execution and detailed run observability.

Built at Microsoft with Next.js and the Copilot SDK. The showcase focuses on the product experience because the source code cannot be shared.

Next.jsCopilot SDKCloud automation
Power Platform Licensing and Usage report showing license capacity and users exceeding limits

Power Platform Licensing & Usage

Microsoft product

A tenant-scale reporting experience that helps administrators understand license consumption, identify overages, and take action across Power Platform products.

I led the frontend implementation and designed the data path from raw telemetry through Spark, Synapse, APIs, and the final administrator experience.

React.NETAzure SynapseApache Spark
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Argentum

FOSSFeatured

An interactive, glanceable market dashboard for the terminal with responsive quote tiles, Braille charts, saved dashboards, keyboard and mouse controls, and live polling.

Run the real browser-terminal build directly in this portfolio. It uses xterm.js and a Web Worker, with no backend, remote shell, API key, or runtime CDN.

TypeScriptReactOpenTUIBun

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