Ian Phillips
Principal Software Engineer at Smartsheet
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolIan Phillips is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 12 years of experience designing scalable backend systems and mentoring engineering teams. At Smartsheet he drives architecture, refactors legacy systems, and championed company-wide TDD and secure mTLS service-to-service libraries. Previously he led a team at Gumstix where he cut page load times dramatically, migrated frontends to TypeScript, and implemented algorithmic features like an A* route finder to improve product performance. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the popular FriendsOfSymfony FOSRestBundle to inject ParamFetcher into controllers more flexibly, improving developer ergonomics for REST APIs. Ian blends hands-on coding with developer experience improvements and a knack for finding practical optimizations that reduce customer-visible latency.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BCS Computer Science, BCS Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBA Music, BA Music at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (17)
phpunit10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
rest-api10
mysql9
doctrine-orm9
reflection7
reflections7
pip6
macos6
phpdoc6
attribute6
doctrine6
forms6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle
Apr 2014 - Feb 2015
This Bundle provides various tools to rapidly develop RESTful API's with Symfony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian focused on enhancing the FOSRestBundle to allow the injection of the `ParamFetcher` into controller methods, either by name or through type-hinting. They implemented and tested the functionality, including a test suite that verifies the correct attribute setting based on the type hinting in the controller methods. The contributions involved modifying the `ParamFetcherListener`, and `ParamFetcherController` classes along with creating new tests and modifying existing ones. This enhancement allows for easier and more flexible use of the `ParamFetcher` within the framework.
apibundlephpsymfony-bundleapi-s
ianfp/symfony
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
phpsymfony-bundleframeworkphp-frameworkphp-symfony
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