Build
Data platforms
Reliable pipelines, governed data models, and analytics foundations that make complex operations easier to understand.
Python · SQL · PySpark · AirflowHowdy — I’m Gus Phillips.
I build data systems that turn busy work into business value.
Data engineer specializing in scalable pipelines, finance automation, governed analytics, and production AI workflows.
DATA ENGINEERING✦AI WORKFLOWS✦ANALYTICS✦AUTOMATION
What I do
From raw data to reliable decisions.
I work where data engineering, automation, and business operations meet.
Automate
AI-enabled workflows
Practical agents and LLM-enabled tooling that remove repetitive work while keeping quality and governance in view.
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Business outcomes
A business analytics background that connects technical decisions to measurable savings, speed, and confidence.
Finance · Supply chain · OperationsProjects in progress
Small products, carefully bounded.
Two private experiments are taking shape alongside the data work. Read the verified state, the product idea, and what still needs to happen before anything ships.
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Reel Recall
Learn the cast. Remember the show.
A mobile-first cast-learning game prototype with solo practice and future friend races.
Review project preview 02Pet Portrait
Your pet, in your style.
An iOS portrait workflow shaped by pet photos and a playful style-discovery deck.
Review project preview 03RetentionMail
Thoughtful mail, right on time.
A browser-only static demo of personalized retention cards and sample workflows.
Open static demoExperience
Engineering with context.
More than five years helping Fortune 500 teams move from manual processes to trusted, scalable systems.
Download full résumé2025 — Present
Data Engineer
Meta · Contractor
Building finance automation and data pipelines across payroll, tax, accounts receivable, and compliance. Delivered $265K+ in annualized savings across six projects and built production AI agents for documentation and workflow standards.
2022 — 2025
Senior Data Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Engineered governed data flows for Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Facilities analytics, including a migration of legacy workloads to Databricks for stronger scale, performance, and maintainability.
2019 — 2022
Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin · F-35 Operations
Built Python and SQL automation for logistics data, introduced validation and monitoring, and supported operational reporting for supply chain and readiness teams.
Education
M.S. Business AnalyticsUniversity of Texas at Dallas · 2022
B.S. International EconomicsTexas Tech University · 2016
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