Joshua Darron Phillips

Hi, I'm Joshua

Founding engineer at RocketRide.

I build the developer-facing surface: SDKs, MCP server, VS Code extension, workshop tooling.

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Founding-team engineering across the developer surface.

SDK & Tooling

TypeScript, Python, and Node.js SDKs, MCP servers, and VS Code extensions for an open-source AI runtime.

Full-Stack Engineering

End-to-end product work in TypeScript and Python: Postgres, Neo4j, Next.js, and the runtime layer underneath.

Data & AI Systems

AI agents, pipeline architecture, and graph data science. Production systems, not demos.

Backend Systems

Data-intensive services, streaming APIs, and the runtime layer underneath the orchestration frameworks.

Joshua Darron Phillips

Founding engineer from the Golden State

I'm a founding-team engineer at RocketRide, an open-source MIT-licensed AI runtime. I own the developer-facing surface: the TypeScript and Python SDKs, the MCP server, the VS Code extension, and the workshop tooling.

I also built Pulsar, a market intelligence agent running internally across finance, HR, and marketing at RocketRide, which launches as a featured app on RocketRide Cloud. I work in TypeScript, Python, and C++, and I write about what I build.

Experience

2026

RocketRide AI Inc.

Founding Engineer · San Francisco · 2026 - Current

Founding-team engineer on an open-source MIT-licensed AI runtime. I own the developer-facing surface: TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, MCP server, VS Code extension, and workshop tooling. Built Pulsar, the internal market intelligence agent launching as a featured app on RocketRide Cloud.
2022

Aparavi Software AG

Software Engineer · Santa Monica · 2022 - 2026

Led major initiatives to introduce new features to the data intelligence automation platform using Node.js, SQL databases, and React.js. Delivered innovative data management and protection solutions.
2020

HOTB Software

Software Engineer · Irvine · 2020 - 2022

Developed enterprise-grade software using Node.js, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, React, and AWS. Built internal systems for order management, revenue reporting, and production workflow tracking.
2020

Nihon Kohden

Software Engineer · Irvine · 2020 - 2021

Architected data streaming APIs to receive medical monitoring data stored in MSSQL. Built frontend applications using Vue to display real-time data streams.
2019

Rogue Cloud

Software Engineer · San Juan Capistrano · 2019

Automated business processes using Salesforce cloud platform. Developed enterprise-grade software and provided training and mentorship to junior engineers and interns.
2016

AppMakersLA

Project Manager Intern · Los Angeles · 2016

Assisted with facilitation of full-stack application development. Monitored project progress and workflow while participating in client meetings.

Featured Projects

Pulsar

Market intelligence agent running internally across finance, HR, and marketing at RocketRide. Launching as a featured app on RocketRide Cloud. Scrapes eight developer sources twice daily, runs them through pipelines for analysis, produces a trend report and content drafts across seven platforms.

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RocketRide

Open-source MIT-licensed AI runtime. C++ core with Python and TypeScript SDKs. 2k+ stars on the org repo. I work on the developer-facing surface and SDK ecosystem.

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RocketRide Workshops

Hands-on workshop scaffolding for the runtime. Cross-platform launchpad tool resolves runtime versions, downloads OS-specific binaries, and boots UI plus API plus runtime with one pnpm dev.

TypeScriptpnpmCross-platform

rocket-reviewer

Multi-agent code review system.

TypeScriptAgentsClaude

godseye

Real-time global tracking system.

Real-timeMapping

Writing

Generative AI

Observability for AI Pipelines: What to Trace and Why.

Most teams treat AI observability as a retrofit. It's a design constraint.

 Level Up Coding

MCP Is the Connective Tissue Your Agent Stack Is Missing.

A protocol-level explanation of why Model Context Protocol matters more than its mention volume suggests.

 Level Up Coding

The Palimpsest Library.

Rebuilding documentation architecture around two first-class audiences: humans and the coding agents that work alongside them.

 Level Up Coding

Two Communities Are Building on MCP. They Think It Is Two Different Things.

The protocol split between agent tooling and data-integration camps, and why each side reads the same spec differently.

 Level Up Coding

The Full Stack Is One Layer Deeper.

Argument for naming and formalizing the AI layer of the stack the way LAMP, MEAN, and JAMstack named earlier patterns.

 Level Up Coding

I Tried to Use My Own Product for Everything.

Postmortem on three architectural wrong turns building Pulsar, and the principle I should have started with.

 Generative AI

I Expected Pulsar to Land on the Repo Shelf. It Didn't.

How a weekend dogfood project ended up adopted by finance, HR, and marketing.

More at joshuadarron.medium.com. Published in Level Up Coding and Generative AI.

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Email: phillips@joshuadarron.com · Writing: Medium

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