Phil Gates-idem
Staff Software Engineer at Opine
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Gates-idem is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-scale, data-driven systems and web applications from startup to enterprise. He has led engineering and architecture at companies like JupiterOne and Socket, where he introduced ClickHouse and Kafka, scaled storage to multi-terabyte volumes, and helped drive >5x ARR growth through reliable analytics and telemetry systems. Equally comfortable as a hands-on IC and a lightweight manager, he ships backend pipelines, APIs, and frontend improvements using Node.js, TypeScript, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS). An active open-source contributor, he’s contributed substantive fixes and tests to the popular Marko.js framework, reflecting deep full-stack instincts. Based in Durham, NC, he co-founded Opine and continues to tinker with code outside work, blending product intuition with pragmatic engineering.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
frontend10
isomorphic10
ui-components10
html9
nodejs9
server-side-rendering8
dom8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
marko-js/marko
Feb 2014 - Sep 2017
A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:118 commits, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Phil made several contributions to the Marko.js framework. They focused on fixing bugs related to string concatenation, fixing an error message, and adding support for new features. The user also cleaned up jshint errors, added missing dependencies, and worked on code cleanup throughout the codebase. Finally, the user added tests for rendering and updated template compilation.
javascriptdeclarativeweb-appsisomorphiccompiler
philidem/node-app-root-dir
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 11 months
infernode-applicationnodejsdirectorynpm
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