Summary
Phil Mayes is a veteran software engineer and CEO based in Santa Barbara with over four decades of hands-on experience starting from assembler on 8K core memory to modern Python and Flutter development. He leads Olive Branch Communications, where he has independently shipped a diverse set of commercial and open-source projects—ranging from PDAs and Win32 servers to a Python oscilloscope and web tools for photography, time-based events, and legal analysis. Comfortable as both a solo developer and team lead, he has a track record of porting low-level control software, building installer systems, and architecting web and desktop applications. A trained natural scientist from Cambridge, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective and a penchant for unexpected projects like a news-rewriting site that tests readers’ assumptions.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
none, Natural Sciences, none, Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge
Dulwich College
English, French, Latin