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Full name: Philippe Serhal

Location: Montréal, QC, Canada

Role: Staff Software Engineer

Company: Netlify

Team: Front-end Frameworks & Build System

Philippe Serhal

I make computers solve problems.

I like to build things. I like to fix things. I really like to solve problems.

I love to deeply, truly understand things.

I currently work as a Staff Engineer on the team responsible for the build & deploy system at Netlify, where millions of sites are developed, built, and deployed—with dozens of different tech stacks.

Publications & Writing

OSS

# Maintainer

npmx

A fast, modern browser for the npm registry

Gatsby

React-based framework for building performant, static-first websites

Netlify CLI

Command-line interface for the Netlify platform

@netlify/build

The build system that powers Netlify deployments

OpenNext Netlify Adapter

Next.js adapter for Netlify, under the OpenNext umbrella

Netlify Vite Plugin

Vite plugin enabling full Netlify platform emulation in development

Netlify TanStack Start Plugin

TanStack Start integration for Netlify

Netlify Nuxt Module

Nuxt module enabling full Netlify platform emulation in development

Netlify React Router Plugin

React Router (Remix) integration for deploying to Netlify

Netlify Angular Runtime

Angular build plugin for deploying to Netlify

# Contributor

SvelteKit Netlify Adapter

SvelteKit adapter for deploying to Netlify

Nitro

Universal server engine powering Nuxt, Analog, and more

Astro Netlify Adapter

Astro adapter for Netlify

e18e

Ecosystem performance initiative to clean up and speed up the JS ecosystem

TanStack Start

Full-stack React framework built on TanStack Router

Next.js

The React framework for the web

Projects

Release Train

The latest and upcoming front-end framework major releases, in the style of a train station split-flap display for some reason.

  • Astro
  • Svelte

Is this chess?

Is this chess? You upload an image. Cutting-edge AI tells you if it's chess. That's it.

  • Astro
  • Solid.js
  • OpenAI

Artifice

Guess the real source prompt for an image created by generative AI. Beware the decoy prompts also created by generative AI from that image.

  • SolidStart
  • OpenAI
  • SolidUI
  • TailwindCSS
  • Netlify Blobs

Frameworkers

Lists the top contributors to a selection of front-end frameworks, extracted from the GitHub API

  • Astro
  • GitHub API

Netlify Cache Inspector

Inspect & compare cache headers for requests to Netlify sites

  • Vue
  • Nuxt
  • Netlify Blobs

Mouthse

Half-baked proof of concept for using your mouth (voice) to control your mouse (a cursor)

  • React
  • Next.js

pyn

(old!) Spatial bias assessment and correction for oligonucleotide microarrays

  • R
  • C++
  • Bioinformatics

beerlist.it

(old!) Fetch the BeerAdvocate ratings for all the beers listed on a webpage

  • Python
  • Django

You Coined It!

(old!) Reddit bot that congratulates people when they coin a new word on the Internet

  • CoffeeScript

Where I've Worked

Staff Software Engineer @ Netlify

  • ▹On the team responsible for front-end frameworks and the entire build & deploy system
  • ▹Collaborate with framework maintainers & OSS community to deliver world-class DX on Netlify's CDN & serverless infra for 6M+ users
  • ▹Maintain a build & deploy system processing hundreds of thousands of builds per day (Go, k8s)
  • ▹Maintain bleeding-edge expertise in React, Next.js, Remix, Astro, Vue, Nuxt, Svelte, SvelteKit, Angular, and more
  • ▹Core maintainer of Gatsby.js front-end framework, used by hundreds of thousands of sites

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Good Eggs

  • ▹Reported to Dir. of Eng., with a broad mandate to proactively identify problem areas across the org (5+ teams, 50+ headcount) and drive to solutions with teams
  • ▹Proposed, founded & led a new DX team with 4 engineers, with a mission to reduce cognitive load for product eng teams (freeing up focus on their problem domains), via libs, services, docs, training, research, prototyping — whatever is needed
  • ▹Planned, authored, disseminated & got buy-in across the org on a long-term vision for system architecture, a roadmap for cross-team tech debt, and quarterly technical OKRs
  • ▹Member of eng. leadership group accountable for org structure, resourcing, and planning
  • ▹Consulted on dozens of projects across the org, providing SME feedback, architectural guidance & alternative solutions, identifying risks, roadblocks & potential cross-team conflicts & opportunities
  • ▹→ e.g. Consulted on expansion to new markets, replacement of in-house transportation management system (TMS) with an off-the-shelf solution, design & implementation of a membership program, etc.

Senior Software Engineer @ Good Eggs

  • ▹Good Eggs delivers same-day groceries. The entire supply chain is run in house. I developed software that scaled it from $15M revenue to $150M, from negative margin to the best unit economics in the industry.
  • ▹As Tech Lead, led technical planning of several major projects: gathered requirements, coordinated with cross-functional stakeholders, wrote tech specs, wrote user stories, guided implementation, ran agile ceremonies, and contributed to code review & implementation
  • ▹Designed & developed a suite of guided warehouse management & order fulfillment apps (to pick, consolidate, sort & ship barcoded orders; to receive, putaway, value-add & cycle count barcoded inventory). The system was used to fulfill 30M+ cumulative order items.
  • ▹Contributed to 20+ services, with an event-driven architecture (RabbitMQ), MongoDB, NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, GraphQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, and ECS
  • ▹Contributed to 10+ front-end apps, with TypeScript, React, Redux, and GraphQL—and a legacy stack of CoffeeScript, AngularJS, Backbone, and Heroku

Graduate Research Assistant @ IRIC

  • ▹Functional and Structural Bioinformatics Lab @ Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), supervised by Dr. Sébastien Lemieux
  • ▹Developed an algorithm for quantification, visualization, and correction of spatial bias in DNA microarray raw data; published in peer-reviewed journal, presented at multiple conferences, and released as free software (R/C++).
  • ▹Worked on developing a modern approach to integrative analysis of multiple, dispersed, interrelated, heterogeneous, voluminous biological data sets. Developed proof of concept with distributed Node.js data servers and lightweight Bootstrap + d3.js integrative data visualization front-end, serving live clinical research data to a group of 40 leukemia researchers.

Junior Programmer/Analyst @ Gov. of Canada

  • ▹On team responsible for auditing government websites for accessibility, usability, and interoperability standards
  • ▹Developed web apps for automated and manual verification and reporting (ColdFusion, Perl, JavaScript)

Get In Touch

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