Phil Whitby

Phil Whitby has been working in the engineering industry since 2003. From 2003 to 2005, they were an Infrastructure Engineer at Ford Motor Company. From 2005 to 2017, they held a Research and Development Engineering Manager role at the UK Government, where they were responsible for software security analysis and research. In 2017, they joined Synack, Inc. as a Senior Data Engineer, and later held the roles of Engineering Manager and Director of Engineering. In 2022, they moved to Obsidian Security as the Senior Director of Engineering.

Phil Whitby has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, a Master of Science in Advanced Networking from The Open University, and studied Computer Science at the University of British Columbia from 2004 to 2005. Phil has also obtained certifications from Coursera, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Google Cloud, including Advanced Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization (2019), Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization (2019), Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP Specialization (2017), Chartered Engineer (2014), and Professional Data Engineer (2021).