About
Phil Hale is a full-stack engineer and product manager with over seven years of commercial experience. He's been creating public web applications since 2009, working on everything from rapid prototypes to large, high-traffic web applications.
Experience
- Lead developer on multi-year, multi-million dollar projects.
- Owned the product and built relationships with high-value clients.
- Conversion of legacy Rails apps to modern, scalable API + React-based systems.
- Set up and managed data analytics pipelines.
- First technical hire on a now-public company.
On shelf: Confident Ruby, POODR, Code Complete.
- Honolulu Answers
- Role: Lead developer
- Employer: City of Honolulu
- When: January 2013 - January 2014
Continued development and maintenance of Honolulu Answers. Responsible for prioritizing feature requests and bugfixes. Required strong technical and project management skills. Led the technical handover from Code for America to the City of Honolulu.
Winner of the 2013
IXDA user-interaction award for facilitating communication between
people and communities.
For up-to-date information on the project, check the development board on Trello or the project page on GitHub.
- FreeAgent
- Role: Engineering intern
- Employer: FreeAgent
- When: June 2013 - September 2013
Shipped several features including integration with Stripe for payment processing and the initial work on new project management features.
The development process was rigurous, and included different levels of testing, QA and peer-review of submitted code.
For more information see this post.
- OpenCounter
- Role: Developer
- Employer: Code for America
- When: October 2012 - January 2013
Launched the prototype of Open Counter, which guides new business owners through the paperwork and regulations required to set up shop in Santa Cruz.
Worked with city staff and other developers to map complicated planning codes and regulations into easy-to-use, intelligent forms.
Winner of the Knight Foundation Knight News Challenge: "How
might we improve the way citizens and governments interact?"
The site and its source is available at: https://github.com/codeforamerica/opencounter
- Google Summer of Code
- Role: Developer at Code for America
- Employer: Google Summer of Code
- When: June 2012 - September 2012
Worked with designers, UX specialists and other engineers to launch Honolulu Answers. Major contributions included a unique NLP-based searching library for enhanced full-text search.
Attended the 2012 Code for America Summit in San Fransisco, CA.
The site and its source is available at: https://github.com/Honolulu/honolulu_answers
Education
Data extraction, analysis and visualization.
Completed projects:
- Descriptive Statistics (iPython, Pandas).
Taken a wide range of courses covering everything from human-computer interaction to the fundamentals of computation. Additionally, I spent a year studying humanities courses on the English Literature BA programme.
Member of the prefect / special manager team responsible for organising 6th-form activities. Selected to represent the school in the national Lessons from Auschwitz project.
