Phil Borel is a product-minded engineering leader with 12+ years of experience in early & growth-stage software companies. He's laid the groundwork as employee #1 and operated at scale as employee #10,000 - and believes success at any size requires the same things: highly-motivated teams, deep customer focus, and rapid iteration. Today, he's exploring agentic development workflows to ship higher-quality software, faster.

Phil is an Engineering Manager at RIVET, a Detroit-based construction tech SaaS company. He also advises early-stage startups, is deeply invested in the midwest tech ecosystem, and organizes the Detroit Developers meetup. He writes about his learnings at https://www.detroitdevelopers.com.