Brandon Philips
FounderCTO at CoreOS
San Francisco Bay Area
Writes $5K – $50K checks · typically $25K
FoundedCoreOS · YC
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About
Brandon Philips is the former co-founder and CTO of CoreOS, with a background in application infrastructure, distributed systems, enterprise sales, and sales enablement. His technical experience includes software development in Go and C, building distributed systems on Kubernetes, and Linux Kernel work, and he has led product, marketing, and technical discussions across organizations.
CTO at CoreOSYC S13
Intro paths
Brandon went through Y Combinator (Summer 2013) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Brandon Philips?
- Brandon Philips is the former co-founder and CTO of CoreOS, with a background in application infrastructure, distributed systems, enterprise sales, and sales enablement. His technical experience includes software development in Go and C, building distributed systems on Kubernetes, and Linux Kernel work, and he has led product, marketing, and technical discussions across organizations.
- Where does Brandon Philips work?
- Brandon Philips is CTO of CoreOS.
- What check size does Brandon Philips write?
- Brandon Philips typically writes checks of $5K – $50K.
- What companies did Brandon Philips found?
- Brandon Philips founded CoreOS.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,635
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IBM mafia655
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Oregon State University mafia62
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