Phil Dougherty
Ex-Epic Games, Ex-DigitalOcean; Technologist with over 20 years of experience in Linux, systems, devops, cloud. Interested in AI agents, voice synthesis, home automation, building electric vehicles and fun projects
- Role
- Platform Architect at Jcl Energy
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Platform Architect
Jan 2025 — Present · Sharon, PA, US
Leading product development for internal business intelligence platform serving sales, operations, and procurement teams - Conducted stakeholder interviews across sales, operations, and procurement to identify workflow inefficiencies; discovered sales team spending 8+ hours/week manually matching vendor quotes to inventory database- Defined MVP feature set prioritizing ERP/CRM integration and automated quote processing based on validated user needs- Delivered platform reducing quote processing time by 75%, now handling 50+ quotes/week and processing inventory items and 8,400+ sales orders- Managed feature prioritization across 12 stakeholder requests from 3 departments; shipped features based on business impact analysis- Built initial MVP using FastAPI, Vue.js, and PostgreSQL to validate product direction; hands-on prototyping enabled rapid iteration on user feedback- Integrated Acumatica ERP, HubSpot CRM, and Microsoft Graph APIs; implemented ML-powered document analysis for engineering drawing extraction
Education
Hickory High School
College Prep
1999 — 2003
Pace University
Computer Science
2003 — 2007
Skills
- Linux
- Docker
- Apache
- Puppet
- Nginx
- Mysql
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Open Source
- Xen
- Cloud Computing
- Linux System Administration
- Server Management
- Nagios
- Amazon Ec2
- Git
- Freebsd
- Centos
- Load Balancing
- Cisco Technologies
- Ruby
- Ubuntu
- Red Hat Linux
- Subversion
- Devops
- Python
- High Availability
- Server Architecture
- Chef
- Juniper
- Node.js
- Mobile Commerce
- Shell Scripting
- Pci Dss
- Apache Mesos
- Marathon
- Zookeeper
- Networking
- Management
- Infrastructure
- Sql
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