Phillip
Diffley
Engineering & Architecture
Phillip has spent 12 years designing streamlined algorithmic solutions to ambiguous problems and implementing robust backend systems with unique scalability requirements across a wide cross-section of industries. Working at Caltech, Google, The New York Times, and his own startups, he has worked on and with teams facing difficult realtime synchronization problems for messaging and collaborative applications and has developed robust generic solutions for solving these problems at the database layer.
Shane
Friedman
Engineering & Architecture
Shane has been architecting and building complex user-facing systems for his entire career. After working on content management systems and dashboards for Amazon Music and YouTube Music, he led the New York Times engineering team responsible for the collaborative rich text editor that the newsroom used to produce stories for nytimes.com. He now advises on React and frontend library design.