Summary
Phil Wilkinson is a pragmatic platform engineer with a decade of hands-on IT experience, currently supporting core systems as a Jade Platform Associate at one of the UK’s largest building societies. He progressed from 1st-line service desk to 3rd-line platform administration, specialising in database administration, performance optimisation, backup & recovery, and security controls within Agile operations. Phil has a track record of turning legacy processes into dependable, automated systems—from building data pipelines and supplier automation with Python to delivering a 200% e-commerce uplift as an IT leader. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he combines frontline support instincts with strategic infrastructure design. Based in Bradford, he brings a pragmatic, delivery-first mindset: he builds things that work in production, not just slides or theory.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Level 3 BTEC - Video Game Development [2008 - 2009], Level 3 BTEC - Video Game Development [2008 - 2009] at Bradford College
Initial steps with... Visual Basic 6, Pass, Initial steps with... Visual Basic 6, Pass at Shipley College
Bingley Grammar School
Level 2 BTEC- ITC Practitioners [2006 - 2007], Level 2 BTEC- ITC Practitioners [2006 - 2007] at Craven College