Phil Burrows
Observer · DISC type icPhil Burrows is an engineering leader at Brex, heading the Platform and Infrastructure Engineering team. He has extensive experience building and leading distributed teams to run applications at scale, with a technical background that includes a Triplebyte certification and expertise in Elixir and Google Cloud Platform.
Phil is a passionate advocate for open-source software, having authored and released multiple libraries to the Elixir community. He actively shares his technical knowledge and explorations on his personal blog, covering topics from Elixir to his more recent work with the Rust programming language.
He once rewrote a high-throughput API from Ruby to Elixir, which cut operational expenses by over 80% while significantly increasing capacity.
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