Phil Mass
Senior Software Engineer at CreativeX
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Mass is a senior software engineer in Portland with a rare blend of algorithmic rigor and visual design sensibility, backed by over two decades of professional software work spanning robotics, real-time visual effects, and modern web development. He led and wrote the original Roomba codebase, founded two product-driven companies, earned an Emmy for real-time virtual-production tooling, and holds 37 patents across robotics and VFX innovations. More recently he has pivoted to JavaScript, React, Node.js and functional programming, building accessible, tested front-ends and serverless backends while improving CI/CD and UX at startups. Phil combines low-level performance expertise (C/C++, embedded systems, GPU compute) with shipping production web apps, making him adept at bridging hardware-constrained problems and cloud-native web architectures.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics/Sculpture, Summa Cum Laude, BS, Physics/Sculpture, Summa Cum Laude at University of OregonUniversity of MichiganMS, Physics, MS, Physics at University of WashingtonReact, Javascript, Ruby, React, Javascript, Ruby at Epicodus
Github Skills (24)
displays10
trains10
multiplication9
editable8
api8
rubiks-cube8
crossword7
puzzle7
javascript-react6
solver6
react5
l-systems5
stylelint4
flutter4
google-maps-api4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
philrmass/style-explorer
Mar 2019 - May 2021
An data visualization app to explore relationship between the colors in images
Contributions:133 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
data-visualization
philrmass/kanoodle-solver
Dec 2019 - May 2021
A solver for the puzzle game Kanoodle
Contributions:49 commits, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
crosswordgamesolverpuzzlerubiks-cube
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