Phil Poore is a pragmatic lead developer and founder with over 20 years of experience rescuing, modernising and scaling complex systems across startups and enterprise clients. He combines hands-on architecture, refactoring and infrastructure skills with deep product sensibility—having rebuilt legacy charity platforms for acquisition, led a legal-tech SaaS as principal engineer, and shipped a news+NLP system that processed 350k articles/day. Comfortable anywhere in the stack, he’s delivered secure multi-tenant platforms, CI/CD and 100% backend test coverage, plus advanced document integration using Word/OOXML. A low-drama, highly autonomous operator, Phil thrives when dropped into technical chaos and given scope to redesign systems for performance and maintainability. He also brings an unusual background in fine-dining kitchens, which shaped his discipline and attention to detail that now informs engineering and incident response. Available for senior contracting roles in the UK or remotely.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
HND/NVQ Level 2 Computing Technology and Mechanical Engineering, HND/NVQ Level 2 Computing Technology and Mechanical Engineering at Burton College
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Manchester University
Contributions:17 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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