Elliott White
Staff Engineer at Thrive Market
Frederick, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliott White is a seasoned Staff Engineer with 17 years of hands-on leadership experience modernizing legacy PHP systems and aligning engineering practices with business outcomes. Based in Frederick, MD, he has led transformations from refactoring millions of lines of legacy code to building AWS-based data warehouses and restoring secure, scalable infrastructure as a fractional CTO. Elliott combines deep PHP expertise—evidenced by contributions to the official php.net site—with product-minded leadership across startups and established brands, improving developer experience through tools like PHPStan and stronger testing pipelines. He has a track record of turning technical debt into measurable business value, including significant cost savings and tenfold performance improvements. Comfortable both mentoring teams and rolling up his sleeves to patch critical vulnerabilities, he blends editorial and community-facing experience from running php[architect] with startup grit from founding and scaling multiple ventures.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at West Virginia University
English
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Github Skills (5)
php10
documentation10
version-control9
git9
phpunit7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
php/web-php
May 2015 - Jan 2020
The www.php.net site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 1 PR, 43 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Elliott contributed to the PHP website's documentation. They merged pull requests that updated the changelog files for different PHP versions (5 and 7), and fixed some bugs. The changes involved modifications to include files like version.inc and header.inc, as well as documentation updates. They also merged in pull requests that involved conference announcements and fixed minor merge conflicts.
phpphp7
EliW/dev-community-data
Mar 2016 - Dec 2019
Collecting data on all user groups and conferences to be used by anyone.
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 9 months
groupscollectingconferences
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