Phil Howell
Principal Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi Foundation
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarPhil Howell is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience, based in Cambridge, UK, who blends deep systems engineering with product-focused leadership across both industry and nonprofit tech. Currently CTPO at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and formerly a Principal Engineer at Arm, he brings rare expertise at the intersection of hardware-aware software and developer ecosystems. Phil is a pragmatic open-source contributor — notably improving Flask-SQLAlchemy’s Python 3 compatibility and test stability — demonstrating steady, behind-the-scenes impact on widely used tooling. He excels at making complex, cross-domain systems reliable and accessible to larger developer communities.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
sqlalchemy10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
testing9
py7
setuptools7
documentation6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pallets-eco/flask-sqlalchemy
May 2014 - Aug 2016
Adds SQLAlchemy support to Flask
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 66 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to improving the Flask-SQLAlchemy library, focusing on Python 3 compatibility, and fixing tests. They updated classifiers in the `setup.py` file to reflect Python 3 support, and made various fixes in `flask_sqlalchemy/__init__.py` and documentation files for broader Python 3 compatibility. In addition, they bumped the version number and specified the minimum SQLAlchemy requirement.
flaskpythonflask-sqlalchemysqlalchemy
immunda/katyusha
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year
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