Dan Phillimore
Founder Software Engineer at Nytris
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Phillimore is a founder and software engineer with 14 years' experience building and maintaining PHP- and JavaScript-driven web systems, currently leading product and engineering work through his company Nytris. He spent the bulk of his career as a senior engineer on an accessibility-focused enterprise CRM, owning features, on-call support, deployments and deep-root cause investigations that routinely unblocked colleagues. Comfortable across the stack—Symfony, MySQL, SSE/Mercure and background workers—he has a track record of fixing thorny production issues (including RabbitMQ consumer stalls and Memcached auto-discovery segfaults) without full rewrites. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Mockery’s handling of internal PHP classes and circular data structures to make testing more reliable. Based in Leicester, he pairs pragmatic engineering with hands-on incident response and a curiosity for practical DIY projects off the keyboard.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ICT Maths Business, ICT Maths Business at William Bradford Community College
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Github Skills (8)
test-doubles10
debug10
php10
mockery10
mocking10
phpunit10
testing10
debugging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mockery/mockery
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Mockery is a simple yet flexible PHP mock object framework for use in unit testing with PHPUnit, PHPSpec or any other testing framework. Its core goal is to offer a test double framework with a succinct API capable of clearly defining all possible object operations and interactions using a human readable Domain Specific Language (DSL).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:8 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Dan focused on improving the Mockery library's functionality and reliability. Their commits addressed critical bugs related to mocking internal PHP classes and recursive array structures, significantly enhancing compatibility and stability. The user also implemented improvements to error messages, especially for handling circular data structures within expectations, and optimized argument stringification for clearer debugging output, with added tests to demonstrate the improvements.
phpspecgoaldoubleunitmocking
asmblah/transpiler
Jul 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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