Paul Phillips (poker player)

Paul Phillips, born on 9 August 1972 in San Francisco, California, is an American software developer, entrepreneur and poker player. He wrote the Boa web server while attending the University of California, San Diego, but no longer maintains it. In 1996 he became Chief Technical Officer for Go2Net, the success that is the basis of his nickname Dot-com. He subsequently worked on the Scala compiler and standard library and is a co-founder of Akka.io, then known as Typesafe and later Lightbend, a company specializing in the production and support of an open-source platform for software development based on Scala and Akka; he left Lightbend in 2013 over differences in the architecture of the language, collections library and compiler. He is also a professional poker player who finished second in the 2003 Tournament Poker Money List.