Trey Philips

Projects

Personal

Is Lake Travis Full Yet?: A site that shows current and historical water levels for Lake Travis, the reservoir that serves as the source of drinking water for Austin, Texas
The Button Snitch: Real-time charts (including a scatterplot and histogram), notifications, and other features to monitor Reddit's /r/thebutton
Krishanu: A Netflix Queue Manager (offline): A web app to sort your Netflix queue (e.g. by runtime) and add notes to items in it
Tweeting Too Hard (offline) — v1 (screenshot), v2 (screenshot): “Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.” A web app where tweets were voted on (Reddit-style) to find the most self-important of them all. Received press coverage across major media (Time, New York Times, Wired, etc.).
Extended Info (acquired by SideStep): Winner of the Facebook F8 Contest. With Facebook, your profile comes with fields such as Activities, Interests, and Favorite Music, but Extended Info allows you to add extra fields to your profile, such as Currently Reading, Favorite Foods, or anything you can think of.

Business

Expedia Group: Principal engineer for the supply side of the company. Previously, for the Vrbo brand (originally HomeAway), development on web apps using React and hapi.js, and mobile apps using React Native.
Zvents (acquired by eBay’s StubHub, later shut down; CrunchBase listing): Full stack for a responsive redesign, including a Rails-based API used by other StubHub teams and Node-based front end; front end for previous products
The Daily Dot: Built the original front end for this news site about internet communities
Associated Press: Touch-based JavaScript development for a version of the site optimized for tablets
Chomp (acquired by Apple and shut down; Wikipedia article): Front end for the website and WebView-based mobile SDK for this mobile app search engine
Classhive (shut down): Lead developer, or rather first engineer at a small startup. Full stack development for a social product for students incubated by Thinkwell.
3jam (acquired by Skype): Front end for this group text messaging product, and, after pivoting, a virtual number (Google Voice-like) product
ICANN: Updated front end for the Private Enterprise Number management system
SideStep (acquired by Kayak): Worked on my Extended Info Facebook application after they acquired it, and on their Trips application
SURGe (screenshot): A student organization for scientific research. I created and maintained their site during my college years.
Radar.net (Wikipedia article): Radar.net was a mobile photo sharing app before those took off. I created a site for their "ambassadors," representatives who promoted the product on college campuses and elsewhere.