Phil Smith's Resume

Pullman, WA

Skills

Co-founder and CTO from 2024 to present

Built Gil, an AI assistant for seniors to independently solve technical challenges, using Swift on iOS and server-side Vapor on AWS.
Building an AI-powered Medicare billing analysis tool for seniors on Barley Medical, a Medicare bill checker.
Built full technology stack: AWS infrastructure, Swift Lambdas and event processing, public APIs, and iOS app distribution via App Store.

Engineer Manager in AI/ML from 2021 until 2023

Led on-device ML pipeline for Siri and Dictation within Apple's AI/ML organization.
Built a personalized speech vocabulary store leveraging user contacts, email, and calendar data to improve context and accuracy.

Vice President of Architecture from 2017 until 2021

Led solution architecture for Fox Broadcasting and Fox Sports digital properties across mobile, web, and living room devices.
Managed two backend engineering teams responsible for authentication, live video, subscriptions, and personalized recommendations via Go and Node.js microservices.

Director of Software Engineering from 2014 until 2017

Led data engineering, web, and native mobile (iOS/Android) teams.
Designed a scalable data pipeline for social media and engagement analytics; built a white-label mobile app factory for talent-driven content distribution.

Senior Director of Software Engineering from 1999 until 2014

Rose from SDE to Director; led a SaaS video platform team supporting mobile video services on major US carrier networks.
Prototyped second-screen and living room video experiences for emerging mobile platforms.

Web Developer intern/contractor from 1997 until 1999

Converted MSDN Mastering Series course material and BackOffice documentation to HTML for online publishing.

Bachelor of Arts

References are available upon request.