Phil is a Sr. Staff Product Manager at Temporal where he is working on durable execution in multi-team environments. Phil previously led Product for the core platform at Apollo GraphQL including Apollo Federation and the Apollo Router, a high-performance supergraph runtime. Phil’s past roles at Upbound working on Crossplane, Chef, and HPE bring over two decades of experience with a mix of open source and enterprise in dev tooling, control planes, and infrastructure as a service. Phil also enjoys skiing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.

Dan Davison is a senior software engineer at Temporal, working on the open source server and SDKs. Most recently, he’s been the project lead on Standalone Activities. He’s spent the last 16 years working on distributed systems and developer tooling, at Temporal, Twitter, and in healthcare. Before that, he was a researcher in human statistical genetics. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and statistical genetics.