Patrick Schwisow
Staff Software Engineer at Basis Technologies
Antioch, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Schwisow is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in PHP-driven web platforms, currently based near Chicago and working at Basis Technologies. He excels at raising code quality through rigorous code reviews, unit testing, and continuous deployment, and has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems into testable, maintainable architectures. Patrick has led payment and subscription modernization at scale (Skillshare’s 200k paid subscribers) and migrated PHP template apps to React SPAs with PHP APIs. An experienced mentor and tech lead, he frequently speaks and writes on tooling and best practices—especially Composer and code review culture—and has organized and presented at numerous PHP conferences. He combines hands-on implementation with cross-team leadership, and brings an uncommon background in both editorial work and classroom-style technical training to bridge engineering and communication.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Major in Computer Science / Minor in Spanish, B.S., Major in Computer Science / Minor in Spanish at Kansas State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (72)
relational9
paypal9
sdk9
payment9
mapper9
payment-service9
payment-gateway9
slim9
braintree9
linux8
nette8
irc-bot8
rest-api8
ruby8
php8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PSchwisow/phergie-irc-plugin-react-url-shorten
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 26 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 4 months
url-shorteningshortening
PSchwisow/phergie-irc-plugin-react-puppet
Nov 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
puppet
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