Joe Phillips
Senior Backend Developer at Coinigy Inc
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Phillips is a Senior Backend Developer with 14 years building reliable, maintainable web applications and APIs, specializing in C#, relational database design, and security-conscious architecture. Based in Menomonee Falls, WI, he has driven CI/CD adoption and scalable message-queue architectures (NSQ) at Coinigy, reducing deployment friction and database contention while supporting mobile and frontend teams. He previously improved high-volume data ingestion, diagnostics, and CI tooling at Milwaukee Tool’s ONE-KEY™ platform, and has long experience simplifying services to lower downtime and operational overhead. Joe contributes to notable open-source tooling like Git Extensions, fixing cross-platform build issues and enhancing VS integrations—an indicator of practical full-stack fluency beyond backend systems. He favors simple, well-factored designs over clever complexity, mentors peers, and crosses language boundaries when needed to get work done. Pragmatic and quietly influential, he combines hands-on coding with system-level thinking to deliver durable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
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Github contributions (5)
gitextensions/gitextensions
May 2012 - Aug 2017
Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 48 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joe contributed to the Git Extensions project by addressing build issues and enhancing the application's functionality. They fixed Mono solution files, corrected file and directory case sensitivity, and implemented features related to ignore patterns and file resetting. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the VS plugins, and updated the previous messages limit in the commit dialog. This involved modifications across various project files, including UI components, settings, and build configurations.
repositoriesmicrosoft-visual-studiowindowsgit-clientgitextensions
phillijw/gitextensions
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
a-shellshell-extensiongit-repositoryvscodegitextensions
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