Emily Phillips

I like figuring out unfamiliar things.

Then I see what I can make with it.

Biology. Healthcare. Teaching. Software. AI. Games.

My Story Things I've Built Resume

builder
problem solver
perpetual beginner

Things I've learned because I had to

RPGlearning a legacy system from scratch
Javamoving into a very different development stack
Spring Bootbuilding backend services and APIs
Angularbuilding user-facing features
Enterprise systemsworking across interconnected applications and databases

Things I've learned because I wanted to

Godotlearning a new engine by building with it
Game developmentsystems, feel, iteration, and scope decisions
Agentic AItesting where multi-step AI workflows actually help
Local modelsunderstanding strengths, limits, and tradeoffs
Creative toolingtrying faster ways to prototype ideas

A brief field history

My path wasn't exactly linear.

Biology
Patient Care
EMT
Teaching
Learned how to explain things clearly.
Computer Science
Changed direction.
RPG at FIS
First language I learned entirely on the job.
Java / Spring / Angular
New team. New stack. Did it again.
AI + Building Things
Still figuring things out.

Field note · right now

Currently figuring out

Agentic AI workflows
Game development in Godot
Better ways to learn
Whatever comes next