Phil Calçado is a pioneering technology leader and founder who transforms how companies build and scale software. He strongly believes that engineering exists to create options for the business, leveraging modern software architecture and management practices to help organizations unlock their full potential and achieve extraordinary results with small teams.

As the Founder & CEO of Outropy, he's creating an AI PaaS designed specifically for software engineers, bringing his decades of experience in distributed systems and scalable architectures to the emerging field of practical AI applications. His pioneering work on AI agents in production at scale has established new patterns for building reliable AI products at high scale.

Throughout his career, Phil has helped ambitious companies punch above their weight through pragmatic architecture and engineering leadership. At SoundCloud, he architected one of the industry's pioneering microservices implementations, scaling the platform from 10 to 250 million active users with a lean engineering team. At DigitalOcean and SeatGeek, he transformed their engineering organizations to accelerate product delivery from years to months, enabling rapid expansion into new markets and products.

A recognized thought leader in distributed systems and microservices, Phil combines deep technical expertise with a practical approach to building technology. He regularly shares his insights through his widely-read blog and as a guest lecturer at PUC Rio, one of Latin America's top universities, where he helps shape the next generation of technology leaders.

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