Phillip (Phil) Daniels 🚀
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Phil Daniels
phil@danielsdev.cloud | (303) 532 9389 | Windsor, Colorado
https://github.com/phildaniels | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-daniels | https://danielsdev.cloud
Frontend and Full Stack Software Engineer specializing in shipping AI driven experiences to millions of users
Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

May 2024 - Present, Windsor, CO

  • Currently on a Frontend Engineering team building Workflows Agent, an agent in M365 Copilot that can be used to automate work using natural language (https://aka.ms/workflowsagentgs) Tools and tech used every day include React, .NET, and Azure.
  • Developed AI Driven features utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), and Agents to enhance user productivity
  • Implemented Observability and proactively monitoring features.
  • Contributed to open source repositories utilized by product
  • Resolved Livesite (On-call / SRE duties) production issues for customers. Livesite champion for team, analyzed and decreased wakeup calls for team by 50% and decreased Incidents per day by 20%
  • Guided and mentored team in Frontend excellence; Member of Frontend Expert Group within organization with special ownership over frontend repo.

Senior Software Engineer, Ensemble Health Partners

June 2023 - April 2024, Windsor, CO

  • Fullstack Engineer, Leader, and Decision maker for the Platform Engineering team; tools and tech used every day include Terraform, TypeScript, React, .NET, and Go, hosted in AWS and Azure.
  • Launched a custom React based Micro-frontend hosting solution for Ensemble applications. Reduced technical debt by collapsing multiple applications into a single platform, increasing user productivity and improving application change time to market. Leveraged Terraform, React, Go, and Cloud Storage. Decreased frontend hosting costs for organization by 30%.
  • Designed and Developed a GraphQL based user and identity management platform, using NextJS, Serverless Functions, and MongoDB; integrated with Ensemble's Identity as a Service provider. Pattern implemented organization wide and leveraged by Hosting Solution. Accelerated launch of new applications.

Senior Software Developer, UL Solutions

Feb 2017 - June 2023, Laramie, WY

  • Technical Leader and Mentor for an ecosystem of applications containing 3 Agile teams.
  • Led refactoring of existing On-Prem Monolith into Micro-service Architecture, using Docker and Kubernetes. Collaborated with Partner teams (DevOps/SRE) to decrease operational, hosting, and development costs by 400k/year
  • Developed mobile application and PWA using React Native and Firebase, increasing staff productivity 50%

Skills
Languages
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • C#
  • SQL
  • Rust
  • Go
Frameworks
  • React
  • React Native
  • NextJS
  • Node
  • .NET
Tools
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Firebase
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Github Actions
Libraries
  • Mocha
  • Jest
  • Chai
  • Tailwind
  • Redux
  • GraphQL
  • Playwright
Education

B.S., Computer Science, University of Wyoming

Aug 2012 - Dec 2016, Laramie, WY