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Database
LumineDB
Purpose-built for teams who need a database that speaks their language.
Pending Release
RustWASMNAPI-RSNext.js
Software Engineer/Principal Engineer
Brandon
D. Phillips
With an expansive career in building enterprise systems for industry-leading companies, I specialize in highly scalable architecture, distributed services, and technical leadership.
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Selected Work
Projects
Systems built with intention. Each one probes a question about how software should behave.
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Cache System
Bergcache
Rethinking how applications store and retrieve the data they reach for most often.
Pending Release
RustWASMNAPI-RSTypeScript
03
AI Framework
FormicaryAI
AI orchestration that's inspired by nature.
Pending Release
RustTypeScriptLumineDBBergcache
04
Design System
Phino UI
A harmonious design system that derives its rhythm and proportion from patterns found in nature.
Pending Release
ReactTypeScriptTailwindCSS Properties
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Research
Mutuus
A catalog of advanced software patterns and computational models, including research artifacts, simulations, etc.
Released
RustWASMTypeScriptNext.js
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Event Infrastructure
Reticulus
A re-imagined mechanism for routing signals.
In Progress
NodeTypeScriptRustWebSockets
Showcases
Latest Work
Visual stories from the things I'm building.
Venture/Apr 2, 2026
Mnemo | Product Preview
A quick product preview for Mnemo so the work has a real front door while the deeper product continues to take shape.
MnemoNext.jsTypeScript
Research/Mar 9, 2026
Mutuus | Website Design
With the first research paper describing the Mutuus's research process being published, it was time to unveil the website which is intended to grow as more research is completed.
Next.jsReactTypeScript
Venture/Mar 8, 2026
ByteQuilt | Website Design
Finally got around to just building the ByteQuilt website beyond the "coming soon" pages.
ByteQuiltLumineDBPhino
Writing
Latest Writing
Essays on software, systems, leadership, and the culture of building. Plus the occasional research paper.
Mar 30, 2026Article
What If We Built Forward?
The software industry has developed an appetite for tearing down patterns that far outpaces its appetite for building something better. What if we stopped debating whether projects "need" good architecture and started making it invisible?
software architectureevent-sourcingabstractionsdeveloper experience
Mar 23, 2026Article
The Human Is Non-Negotiable
I caught my AI research assistant biasing my work toward conventional answers for months. The training data won. Here's what that means for anyone using AI to do original work.
airesearchMutuusbuilding in public
Mar 14, 2026Article
AI Didn't Make Me a Worse Engineer. It Made Me Ask Better Questions.
The narrative says AI is making engineers shallower. Building LumineDB and Bergcache taught me the opposite. What changed isn't the depth. It's who gets access to it.
aisoftware engineeringbuilding in publicluminedb
Research Paper
Nacre Array: A Segmented Dynamic Array with Thermal State Management and Structural Fracture Planes
B. D. Phillips·Mar 24, 2026
The Nacre Array is a segmented dynamic array with three properties absent from conventional contiguous arrays: (1) per-element metadata headers that make elements self-describing without external bookkeeping, (2) a four-state thermal machine (Hot/Warm/Cold/Compressed) that allows cold segments to compress in place, and (3) fracture planes at segment boundaries that enable structural splits without copying element payloads.
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Experience
Career Arc
Principal Software Engineer & Researcher
ByteQuilt
Lead Software Engineer
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) via Strategic Data Systems
Lead Software Engineer
DocuSign
Senior Software Engineer
Philips
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Software Engineer
Philips
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Boston University
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Technical Toolkit
Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptC#C++RustMATLAB
Frontend
ReactNextJSAngularTailwind CSSThreeJSD3Framer MotionFigmaPhino
Backend
NodeJS.NETGraphQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchMongoDBKafkaArangoDBLumineDBBergcacheReticulus
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AWSAzureDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDVercelRailwayGitHub Actions
Architecture
Event-DrivenMicroservicesDDDData PipelinesReal-Time SystemsDistributed SystemsDynamic Consistency Boundaries
AI/ML
ChatGPTHuggingFaceFormicaryClaudeCodexGeminiGitHub CopilotLLM Integration
Research
LaTeXBibTeXTikZOverleafZenodoORCIDMutuus
GitHub Activity
Contributions across open source and personal projects
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