philajan
Joined 2 years ago
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Member since
Oct 28
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Comment · 17 hours ago
Huh, yeah I guess so
Comment · 19 hours ago
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Comment · 7 days ago
Location: St. Louis, MO
Remote: Yes, 6 years remote/hybrid; US time zones.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Guice, Express, React, Angular, Express.js, Tailwind, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, AWS (Lambda, S3), Datadog, Backstage, Playwright, Cypress, JUnit
Résumé/CV: https://philljanowski.com/PhillJanowskiResume.pdf
E mail: philajan <at> pm <dot> me
I'm Phill, a backend-leaning, full stack engineer with 9 years of experience building and operating enterprise SaaS. I'm currently a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and am looking to get back to owning and building products. I have extensive experience planning and leading implementation of large scale features from cloud infrastructure to user interfaces.
What I've done: - Cut permission-check latency 97% (~6s -> ~150ms) on an enterprise-wide authorization service backing every authenticated request across the company, by redesigning resolution over nested group inheritance - Cut cross-datacenter configuration propagation time 92% between AWS legacy VM applications - Built an AI production-review tool on Backstage (TypeScript/React/Express) over an in-house LLM service, surfacing production risk teams can triage in a short meeting
Outside of work I ship projects. Earlier this year I published BookBounce[0], an application I use to keep my son's bedtime stories in constant rotation. I'm currently working on Grain Of Salt[1], a recipe application with version control for iterating on recipes.
I'm looking for a full time position where I can contribute to impactful projects.
[0] https://www.grainofsalt.app/ [1] https://bedtimebookhelper.com/
Comment · 7 days ago
Working on / dog fooding my graph based recipe app[0].
There are more things I'd like to do with the graph concept, like linking two user's recipe trees if they were imported via the same URL. Really trying to to avoid features that I think would be cool that don't provide any functionality.
There are still a few features I'd like to implement that are more in the vein of nice to have in any recipe application, like nested recipes, temperature conversions, volumetric ingredients amounts to mass conversions, etc.
But I've been using it for new recipes and converting my old recipes I have written down in the margins to this format and I've been happy with how usable its been in these early stages.
Comment · 1 month ago
Here’s the accompanying article from the Science & Tech section.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/23/...
Gift link: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/23/...
Comment · 1 month ago
Anecdote:
My dad has had two shoulder surgeries, one to repair his rotator cuff +15 years ago on his right arm, one back in March of this year on his other shoulder. I couldn’t tell you what specifically was wrong with it this time.
He was a regular golfer until last year when the pain got too bad to play through. He just started playing golf again at the beginning of September. He told me after three or so rounds he can’t even tell he had surgery or any previous pain in that shoulder.
He’s had one doctor do his knee surgery and the aforementioned shoulder surgery and he’s really happy with all of their work.
I hope you have as good of an experience as my dad has had.
Comment · 3 months ago
The pricing says one time payment but the price is $25 for 6 months.
Is this 6 months of access or 6 months of updates and lifetime access to those updated versions?
Comment · 3 months ago
Just wanted to let you know Twitter, GH, and RSS icons fall behind the nav bar at least on mobile.
Comment · 4 months ago
This is neat. Have you noticed any difference in duplicate detection between strongly typed and loosely typed languages / code bases?
Comment · 4 months ago
In every monolithic Java Jersey server I worked in there was always at least 1 class using @MatrixParam instead of the query param equivalent. No one could ever answer me why or who because it was always written in a project before it migrated to git.
Comment · 4 months ago
The local news includes the body cam video.
Summary: The farmer was asked to leave by an officer. The farmer acknowledges the request and then walks to the head table to start handing the members documents. He was asked again to leave a couple of more times replying with “On what grounds” and then comes the “…flat and final ‘Arrest him’” that the article mentions.
Some context was left out between the his three minutes to speak being up and the arrest.
Comment · 4 months ago
I imagined the location has to do with the nearby Callaway Nuclear power plant, and the solar projects that Ameren have been putting up in Montgomery County for the past few years.
Comment · 4 months ago
I’ve been considering new features on Book Bounce for my use cases. I’m pretty hesitant to start anything new on it while I’m waiting for approval for Google Play…
https://bedtimebookhelper.com/
In the mean time, I’m working on a recipe application I’ve had countless false starts on. It’s centered around iterations and version on recipes, tracking changes to ingredients and directions to build new a new recipe from an existing one.
I’m starting with a go Bubbletea tui this time and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it compared to the React SPAs I’ve tried before. Not feeling compelled to style anything while working on the UX has been nice.
https://philljanowski.com/