Philip Birnie
Partner Developer at Escape Hatch
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Birnie is a seasoned software developer and co-owner of Escape Hatch, a Columbus, Ohio-based independent development studio delivering robust web components, sites, and APIs, and he is not seeking full-time employment. With 15+ years of experience spanning front-end and back-end development (HTML/CSS/JS and PHP), he specializes in Laravel, CMS and e-commerce platforms (WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify), and scalable server and caching solutions on Cloudflare and CloudFront. He combines Linux server management and performance auditing with pragmatic, solutions-oriented design to turn complex problems into reliable, maintainable systems. His studio collaborates with designers, agencies, and businesses to implement WordPress, Shopify, and Squarespace projects, and sometimes builds custom applications for non-standard workflows. Prior to Escape Hatch, he led development work at 7th Street Web Company and Adept Marketing Outsourced, delivering systems like reservation apps, Magento extensions, and optimization strategies that dramatically reduced hosting costs. He holds an M.A. in Geography and a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from The Ohio State University, reflecting a disciplined, data-driven approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Worthington High SchoolM.A. Geography, M.A. Geography at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (51)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
kickstarter8
gutenberg8
zoho8
single-page7
alfred-workflow7
vagrant7
server-side7
controllers7
html6
svgr6
codeigniter6
rows6
netsuite6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
philbirnie/magento2-7thst
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
philbirnie/Front-end_Boilerplate
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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