Phil Renaud
I build data-focused tools and UIs for developers. I care about typography and dataviz and the open web and distributed systems.
Mostly I want to help people understand complicated things.
- Principal Software Engineer HashiCorp
- Senior Director of Software Engineering Nylas
- Co-founder Halihax
- VP Engineering, Co-founder Affinio
Publications and media
- Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (Part One) Errol Morris, The New York Times
- Down with Helvetica: Design Your Own Font Peter Wayner, The New York Times
- Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface Simon Garfield, W. W. Norton
- Why Fonts Matter Sarah Hyndman, Gingko Press
- Exploring Language, 11th and 12th editions Gary Goshgarian, Pearson Longman
Speaking and lecturing
- Building Data Visualizations on the Web Workshop, Acadia University Department of Computer Science
- Graduate Seminar Instructor, Saint Mary's University Department of Computer Science
- Little Data Big Data for Productivity Congress, Halifax
- Real-time Data Visualization Guest lecture, Saint Mary's University Hack-a-Week
- Designing Interactive Data Visualization Workshop, Acadia University Institute for Data Analytics
- Introduction to jQuery Instructor, Ladies Learning Code, Halifax
- Mining and Visualizing Social Network Data Guest lecture, Acadia University
- Designing Data Stories Lightning talk, DemoCamp Halifax
- Designing Interactive Data Visualization Collide Halifax
- Realtime Data Visualization Halihax, video
- Data Visualization with Ember Components and D3.js Wicked Good Ember, Boston