John Philip
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Philip is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of full-stack experience, currently at Spotify in New York after progressing from Software Engineer II. He specializes in building developer-facing tools and product features across frontend and backend stacks, with notable open-source contributions to Backstage—enhancing UI/UX and adding backend integrations for TechDocs and search. His background spans consumer and healthcare product engineering at BuzzFeed, Ro, and earlier internships, backed by MS and BS degrees from Northeastern. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions that bridge developer experience and production reliability, he blends strong engineering fundamentals with a penchant for improving developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityHigh School, High School at Valhalla High School
English, Spanish, Malayalam
Github Skills (13)
portal10
react10
typescript-types9
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
typescript9
typescripts9
nodejs6
docker6
api6
apidoc6
dockers6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 3 commits, 42 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:John contributed to the Backstage developer portal framework by implementing features and making code improvements across both the frontend and backend. Their work included enhancing the user interface with features like autogenerated heading IDs, adding styling for SVGs, and updating the header title dynamically based on URL parameters. They also worked on the backend, regenerating tokens for search index fetching and updating techdocs container images. Additionally, they added a publisher extension point to techdocs-node.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
johnphilip283/me
Feb 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:159 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
minecraft
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