Hi, I'm Phillip Pearson. I'm an electrical engineer and software developer from Christchurch, New Zealand, now living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Google, 2016-
Steam on ChromeOS (Chrome OS Gaming), 2021-
App Engine (Google Cloud Platform), 2016-2021
Mode Media - social advertising and curation, 2011-2016
Ning - topic-centric social networks, 2009-2016
Yahoo! - Fire Eagle location platform and Facebook app, 2007-2009
BBM - white-label social network software, 2005-2007
Humanware - accessibility hardware, 2000-2005
Elsewhere on the web: Facebook | Twitter | Pinboard.
Since 2014 I've been doing some EE projects in my spare time, mostly involving ARM Cortex-M chips.
- Acorn Electron/BBC Micro retrocomputing - various hardware projects for the British machines that introduced me to computing when I was a kid (2017-)
- Matrix display - a 6 ft x 3 ft LED display for Burning Man (2012)
- Bluetooth-LE controlled LED heart pendants (2014-2016)
- Messing with debug ports: hacking on OpenOCD flash drivers and CMSIS-DAP JTAG support (2016)
- ESP8266 (Xtensa lx106) bootloader reverse engineering (2016)
In the early days of the social web (2002-2005), I was working in EE, so my hobby was making websites:
- the New Zealand Coffee Review, a site for reviewing kiwi cafés
- the Internet Topic Exchange (1, 2), a site for collecting blog posts on similar topics
- the Blogging Ecosystem, which analysed links between members of blog communities
- bzero, a command-line blogging tool
- Python Community Server, a web server in Python to host Radio and bzero weblogs
- phpStorageSystem, a PHP app to host Radio and bzero blogs (proof of concept, to show you don't need a dedicated server)
- Community Server Wiki, where we used to talk about community servers
- Christchurch, New Zealand, a blog for photos of my hometown.
I also have a time capsule of development notes from that period.