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title: "Welcoming Phil Nash, our new Developer Experience Engineer"
slug: welcoming-phil-nash
description: "We're thrilled to share the news that Phil Nash is joining Resend."
created_at: "2026-07-30"
updated_at: "2026-07-30"
image: https://cdn.resend.com/posts/welcoming-phil-nash.jpg
humans: ["phil-nash", "zeno-rocha"]
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Today, we're excited to share that is joining the team as DX Engineer.
He spent 8 years at Twilio teaching developers through talks, articles, and live coding. From there, he took that same passion to IBM. At Resend, he'll keep doing what he does best: helping developers be more productive.
My favorite talk from Phil is [Let's build an AI agent](https://youtu.be/2r47_vCEkyo).
## More about Phil
**How did you get into software?**
I remember a school computing class at the age of 13 where I got to build my first HTML page. In a world before CSS, I distinctly recall making the background of the page maroon and adding further style by wrapping everything in a `` element (everything in HTML was in all caps back then) with a huge, bevelled border to make it seem as though it was sticking out of the page. It was glorious and it kicked off my love affair with the web.
I pursued further computing subjects, eventually taking on a degree in maths and computer science. That almost put me off the world of software: Java and I did not agree. However, while I was supposed to be studying for my final exams, I instead found myself building websites. Once I was finished with university, I built myself a WordPress blog and started learning and writing about front-end development. That eventually led to my first job in the industry and the start of my career in software.
**What does your desktop/home screen look like?**
**Why are you at Resend?**
I've followed for quite a while now so when I saw he'd started Resend I knew I'd have to keep an eye on it. I used Resend to build a [contact form on my own personal site](https://philna.sh/contact), and even wrote my own simple [TypeScript client to interact with the API](https://github.com/philnash/resend-js) (don't use it, the [official client](https://www.npmjs.com/package/resend) is much better!).
Sending email is such a fundamental part of almost every application out there, so when the opportunity arose to join the team and help make that the best possible experience for developers, I had to go for it.
**Where do you find #inspiration?**
I find inspiration in my friends and developers in the industry that I look up to. This is why you find me on social networks that show you the people you follow, not what the algorithm thinks you should see. That way I get to experience the creativity and passion of people I believe in.
It's why I love going to meetups and conferences, where I can watch people present about topics they are passionate about. It's why I wanted to join Resend and work alongside people who care about the work that they do. I find inspiration in other people's passion.
**If you weren't programming, what would you be doing?**
In a past life, I played bass in a band that got some radio airplay in the UK, but fizzled out before really achieving anything. Before that, I once played rugby union for the Harlequins under-19 team, so there's the tiniest chance I could have made it in professional sports. In reality, I was too small for top-flight rugby and far from talented enough to be a real musician, but either would have made for fun careers.
**Favorite tool?**
Part of why I'm a web developer is that the browser is my favourite tool. It's a canvas on which to build, a portal to the whole web, and a scripting environment just waiting for you in dev tools. The list of things you can't do in or with a browser is already short, but the browser developers keep chipping away at it. Firefox has been my daily driver for more than 20 years now, but Chrome is always the second thing I download on a new machine.
**Favorite hotkey?**
As I have been setting up my laptop, it has dawned on me that I am not a hardcore developer who needs to have his hands on the keyboard at all times. I cannot live without mouse gestures. [Gesturefy](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gesturefy/) is the add-on that helps me whip about the web in a carefree manner that I just can't manage without it installed.
If I had to pick a hotkey though, powering up Raycast with `Cmd + Space` is my top choice.
**Favorite place to visit?**
I love visiting Spain, and have always liked Barcelona. The combination of the sea, the food, the architecture, and the vibe has always made me happy. Though last year I visited San Sebastián for the first time and it made a strong claim.
**Advice for ambitious software engineers?**
Since starting up that WordPress blog when I was trying to get my career going, the thing that has worked for me over and over again is to share what I have learned. So I recommend that every time you learn something new, you write it down, turn it into a presentation, make a video, or otherwise share it with the developer community somehow. This has several benefits:
* In order to explain something to someone else, you will need to dig deeper into the topic and you will understand it better
* Sharing your learning publicly can help others to understand the topic too
* The worst-case scenario is that you have documented something for yourself in the future that you can refer back to
But often that worst-case doesn't happen and instead you end up building a community around you of people you can teach, learn from, and be inspired by. And in the best-case you land yourself a job at a fantastic company like Resend.