Phil Bergner

phil.bergner@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-bergner-b873332

Summary

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise software. Founding engineer at Youreka, a leading Salesforce field service application serving global Fortune 100 customers. Launched and scaled the platform to $10M+ ARR. Led engineering through spinout and acquisition. Aligned engineering strategy with revenue growth, enterprise scale, and organizational maturity. Recognized industry leader and invited 5X speaker at Dreamforce.

Experience

Dispatch Vista Equity Partners portfolio company
Boston, MA · Remote
Vice President of Engineering
Oct 2024 – Present
  • Lead engineering and QA organizations with full accountability for strategy, execution, security, and technical roadmap supporting global enterprise deployments
  • Drove adoption of AI enabled development workflows to improve speed, quality, and developer effectiveness
  • Owned engineering hiring, performance management, and compensation planning
  • Acted as executive technical lead across strategic sales cycles and partner ecosystem initiatives
  • Led prototyping and commercialization of new product capabilities
  • Owned board-level strategic initiatives and executive reporting
Senior Director of Engineering
Aug 2023 – Oct 2024
  • Achieved SOC 2 Type I and SOC 2 Type II compliance in consecutive years
  • Led enterprise security review processes across procurement and customer lifecycle
  • Established scalable engineering operating model and leadership structure
Director of Engineering
Apr 2022 – Aug 2023
  • Led engineering through spinout, technical diligence, and acquisition readiness
  • Refactored and relaunched mobile application, migrating 100 percent of customers to the new platform
  • Scaled team, delivery processes, and technical standards to support rapid growth
Youreka acquired by Dispatch, 2022
Baltimore, MD
Founding Engineer
Aug 2020 – Apr 2022
  • Established engineering and QA team following company spin-out from Synaptic Advisory Partners
  • Built and scaled the product platform across APIs, mobile applications, and web
  • Defined core architecture and technical standards
Synaptic Advisory Partners
Annapolis, MD
Salesforce Architect
Nov 2011 – Aug 2020
  • Architected and guided development of large scale Salesforce implementations
  • Led enterprise rollouts across regulated verticals, including large-scale data migrations and integration programs
  • Drove organization-wide adoption of Git based source control and CI/CD
AKQA
Washington, DC
Project Manager
Jan 2006 – Nov 2011
  • Led 10,000+ page CMS platform migration for a government agency
  • Directed large-scale content architecture and publishing operations
  • Managed an offshore QA team
Aquilent — Web Developer
May 2002 – Sep 2005
Commerce One — Web Developer
1999 – 2001

Speaking

Education

Towson University — Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems