Phillip Carter

Phillip Carter is currently employed as the Principal Product Manager at Honeycomb.io. In this role, they are focused on Developer Experience PM work, including driving Honeycomb's OpenTelemetry work, OSS strategy, tooling integrations, and strategic initiatives. Prior to this, Phillip held the position of Senior Product Manager at Honeycomb.io, where they were responsible for various PM tasks related to Developer Experience, such as shaping Honeycomb's OpenTelemetry strategy, managing their Open Source presence, public API, and developer tool integrations.

Before joining Honeycomb.io, Phillip worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager and Program Manager II. In these roles, they played a key role in owning the F# language and tools and the .NET-based "project system" in Visual Studio. Phillip'sresponsibilities included implementing new features, bug fixes, and improvements to the F# tooling in Visual Studio. Phillip also drove updates to Visual Studio tooling, new language features, and new versions of the F# language. Additionally, Phillip promoted the use of F# as a cross-platform and open-source language and worked towards improving the performance of F# tooling in Visual Studio for large codebases.

Earlier in their career, Phillip worked at Oregon State University as a CS Capstone - NASA JPL Sponsor and Student Developer II. In these positions, they gained experience in developing web applications and services on the .NET stack, writing documentation, analyzing web application security, and mentoring other student developers.

Overall, Phillip Carter has a diverse work experience in product management, specifically focusing on developer experience, open-source strategies, and tooling integrations.

Phillip Carter pursued their education in Computer Science by attending Cuesta College from 2010 to 2012. During this time, they did not obtain a degree. Later, from 2013 to 2015, they enrolled at Oregon State University and successfully obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science.