Phil Runninger
Software Engineer at Fleet Response
Barberton, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Runninger is a seasoned software engineer with over 30 years in the industry and more than a decade of recent hands-on experience building and optimizing systems across C#, Erlang, Ruby, and JavaScript stacks. He has shipped performance-focused solutions—from a high-throughput Erlang message framework and multithreaded REST optimizations for 100+ million-row queries to VBA/SSRS reporting systems and CATIA-integrated tooling for tire design—bridging legacy enterprise apps and modern cloud services. Comfortable across databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL) and tooling (Power BI, Vim), he also helped standardize GitHub as source control and contributes stabilizing back-end fixes to popular open-source projects like the Vim NERDTree plugin. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a willingness to modernize brittle workflows and extract measurable business value.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science at Grove City College
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Github Skills (8)
vim10
vim-plugin10
windows6
xpath6
dynamic6
bootstrap6
excel6
xml-namespaces6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
preservim/nerdtree
Nov 2015 - Oct 2021
A tree explorer plugin for vim.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 174 commits, 308 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Phil primarily worked on improving the file explorer plugin for Vim, focusing on features related to file management and user interaction. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to path handling, enhancing the menu's functionality, and improving the plugin's interaction with the operating system. These changes involved modifying core functionalities such as file and directory deletion, path resolution, and the handling of file metadata, enhancing the overall user experience and stability of the plugin. The commits also included refactoring and code improvements.
vim-pluginsvimfile-managementvim-pluginneovim
PhilRunninger/.vim
Feb 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 345 pushes, 23 branches in 5 years 7 months
minusneovimvimvim-configuration
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