# David Phipps

David Phipps is a remote worker on Himalayas, Chief Technology Officer at Generation Tux, Inc., based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@davidphipps

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CTO at Generation Tux, where I shipped agentic LLM systems and improved garment processing and shipping efficiency.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 180k+ USD |
| Job categories | Chief Technology Officer |
| Skills | Engineering Leadership, technology strategy, Organizational Design, Agile, Acquisition Integration, Generative AI, Large Language Models, RAG, AI Agents, Claude Code, AI assisted Development, Machine Learning, AWS, GCP, OpenStack |
| GitHub | https://github.com/dphipps4 |

## About

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At Generation Tux, I introduced Claude Code and built initial agentic LLM models to analyze customer-support calls against written procedures. I also helped the company reach four-nines uptime across 30+ services and improved per-garment warehouse processing and shipping efficiency.

Before Generation Tux, I held engineering leadership roles at Raydiant, Anova Culinary, Symantec, Oracle, and other companies. My work has included shipping cloud platforms, integrating acquired teams and products, delivering connected devices, and contributing to patented technology.
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## Experience

### Chief Technology Officer (current)

Generation Tux, Inc.. Aug 2022 - Present

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Lead software, warehouse, product, UX and financial systems for a VC-backed tuxedo and suit rental e-commerce business. Introduced AI-native engineering practices and achieved four-nines uptime across 30+ services.
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Skills: AI, RFID, Warehouse-Robotics, Claude-Code, Agentic-AI, Next.js, GraphQL, React, SOC2, ISO-27001, CCPRA, ADA

### VP of Engineering

Raydiant, Inc.. Jan 2019 - Aug 2022

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Grew engineering team from 1 to 30 across six countries and shipped 50+ features per year. Led technical due diligence on three acquisitions and integrated AI facial-analysis systems.
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Skills: Engineering-Management, AI, Facial-Analysis, Salesforce-CPQ, SOC2, GDPR, SSO

### VP of Engineering

Anova Culinary. Nov 2017 - Jan 2019

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Delivered iOS and Android apps and improved WiFi connectivity rates from 50% to 82%. Built and shipped the Nano and Precision Cooker Pro devices, achieving 95% sous-vide market share.
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Skills: IoT, Mobile-Development, iOS, Android, MQTT, Protobuf, WiFi, Digital-Marketing, Segment, Amplitude

### VP of Cloud Engineering

[Symantec](https://himalayas.app/companies/broadcom). Nov 2015 - Nov 2017

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Shipped Common Cloud platform used by every Symantec Enterprise product on OpenStack and led migration to AWS. Integrated 57 IT services into Zuora and led identity team for global SSO.
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Skills: Cloud-Engineer, OpenStack, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Zuora, SSO, OAuth, OpenID, Private-Equity

### Sr. Director of Cloud Engineering

[Oracle](https://himalayas.app/companies/oracle). Mar 2013 - Nov 2015

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Delivered Oracle's first cloud products to market and re-architected WebCenter Portal, reducing page-load time from 12 seconds to 500 ms. Trained 5,000+ engineers in Agile and delivered 20+ products for the 12c release.
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Skills: Cloud-Engineer, Agile, WebCenter, Nimbula, OpenStack, Product-Management

### Sr. Director of Engineering

SAY Media. Jan 2012 - Jan 2013

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Overhauled ad servers to scale to 650M unique users per day and cut Hadoop beacon-processing time by 50%. Delivered $50M in annual ad revenue.
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Skills: Ad-Server, Hadoop, Ad-Optimization, Scaling

### Sr. Engineering Manager

[A2Z/Amazon.com](https://himalayas.app/companies/amazon). Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

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Delivered highly-performant HTML5 music player with 500 ms page-load time across four platforms. Expanded Amazon Digital Music from one country to five and integrated payments systems.
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Skills: HTML5, MediaPlayer, Payments, ERP, MP3-Fulfillment, Kindle

### Director of Engineering

[OpenTable](https://himalayas.app/companies/opentable). Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

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Delivered three major ERB releases and shipped OpenTable's first iOS app. Scaled installed base from 5,000 to 25,000 restaurants and patented FlexMode technology.
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Skills: iOS, Windows, ERB, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, IPO, Table-Management

### Senior Software Engineer

Borland

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Developed Paradox 5 and 7 as a Senior Software Engineer.
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Skills: Paradox, Software-Engineering

### Director of Engineering

Zing Networks

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Directed engineering for a 4M user photo-hosting community, pivoting from flash advertising to photo hosting.
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Skills: Photo-Hosting, Community, Pivots

### Director of Engineering

Zero G Software

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Directed engineering for InstallAnywhere, a cross-platform Java installer supporting 18 Unix flavors, and PowerUpdate server+client.
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Skills: Java, Installer, Cross-Platform-Development, Unix

### Director of Engineering

[Autodesk](https://himalayas.app/companies/autodesk)

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Led Location Services for GPS routing and tiled mapping, achieving 12k TPS and five-nines uptime for AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon.
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Skills: GPS, Tiling, High-Availability, Location-Based-Services

### Senior Software Architect

[Autodesk](https://himalayas.app/companies/autodesk)

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Served as Senior Software Architect for 3D Studio MAX 1 and 2.
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Skills: 3D-Max, Architecture

### Director of Engineering

Quios

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Directed engineering for a global SMS gateway serving 1.2M users.
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Skills: SMS-Gateways, Global, Mobile

### Sr. Engineering Manager

BEA Systems/Plumtree

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Led Aqualogic User Interaction Portal with 60M users and 1,800 customers. Led C++/ASP.NET/JSP to Java rearchitecture and took company public.
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Skills: C++, ASP.NET, JSP, Java, Web-Portals, Re-Architecture

## Education

### University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts, Physics

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B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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### Boston University

Physics

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Studied Physics at Boston University.
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## Tech stack

- Segment
- Snowflake
- Chargebee
- Kubernetes
- React Native
- PostgreSQL
- Couchbase
- Hadoop
- Shopify
- Magento
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Android SDK
- Ruby on Rails
- Next.js
- Terraform
- React
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- Kotlin
- Swift
- Go
- C++
- C
- Objective-C
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- MQTT
- Amplitude
- OpenStack
- iOS
- Stripe
- Recurly
- Datadog
- GraphQL
- Elasticsearch
- Protobuf
- TypeScript
- Docker
- NetSuite
- Blender
- Google Ads
- Zuora
- Clickhouse
- Claude Code
- Android
- AWS
- Facebook

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