Ernest Phillips
Software Engineer II at GitHub
California, United States
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Top SchoolErnest Phillips is a Software Engineer II at GitHub with a decade of experience building secure, high-performance full-stack web applications. He’s contributed to GitHub Discussions (Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript) and recently implemented robust authentication and authorization safeguards for the GitHub Education student developer pack. Comfortable across support, community, and engineering roles, Ernest uniquely blends product empathy from customer-facing positions with deep technical execution. Based in California, he pairs a creative background in illustration with formal software engineering training, which shows in thoughtful UX-focused engineering. Outside work he’s into anime and kung fu films, reflecting a curious, culture-minded approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Illustration, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Illustration at School of Visual ArtsComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at ThinkfulUniondale High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
open-source10
github9
gh-extension8
html8
rails8
mvc8
ruby8
github-cli8
ruby-on-rails7
activerecord7
backend6
server-side6
command-line-tool5
stripe4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ernest-phillips/ravenous
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
A Yelp-like website with React
Contributions:11 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
react
ernest-phillips/home_inventory
Apr 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 46 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 1 month
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