Phil Freo
VP Product Engineering at Close
Saint Augustine, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Freo is a software engineer with 14 years of experience who blends product leadership and hands‑on engineering as VP of Product & Engineering at Close.io. He contributes across front-end and back-end open source—improving performance in SwiftMailer, upgrading and documenting Backbone projects, and enhancing UX in popular datepicker and multiselect plugins. Phil’s work spans technical writing, tests, and subtle engineering changes (for example replacing require_once with require to boost performance and fixing tricky "Select All" behavior), demonstrating a focus on maintainability and usability. Based in Saint Augustine, Florida, he brings a pragmatic full‑stack approach to shipping reliable, user‑friendly systems.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
English
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Github Skills (74)
jquery-plugin10
documentations10
testing10
moment-js10
e-mail10
mailer10
backbonejs10
timezone10
backbone10
ssh10
javascript10
jquery10
front-end-development10
html10
shell10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
powmedia/backbone-forms
Feb 2012 - Apr 2017
Form framework for BackboneJS with nested forms, editable lists and validation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the Backbone Forms library by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to form field rendering and behavior. They addressed issues with hidden fields, improved the usability of list items by changing icons and enabling customization of templates. These changes included setting attributes for form fields and allowing customization of templates.
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PaulUithol/Backbone-relational
Jul 2012 - Mar 2018
Get and set relations (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one) for Backbone models
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the `backbone-relational` library, focusing on maintaining and improving its functionality. Their commits included bug fixes related to collection handling, the addition of a test case, and code cleanup, particularly whitespace removal. They also addressed a requirement to specify an Underscore version and upgraded Backbone.js.
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