Phil Young
Software Engineer Technical Lead at ANS Group
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Young is a software engineer and technical lead with 10 years’ experience designing and delivering cybersecurity products and automation-first platforms from Manchester. He currently leads Security R&D at ANS Group, blending hands-on architecture and development with DevOps and vendor integrations (notably Cloudflare and VMware) to build API-first, production-grade solutions. A former freelancer and long-time PHP specialist, he’s contributed backend fixes and API enhancements to the widely used cloudflare-php library, demonstrating pragmatic open-source impact. Outgoing and energetic, Phil pairs a high standard for craft with a steady focus on automation, scalability and measurable security outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MComp Computing & Information Systems, MComp Computing & Information Systems at Sheffield Hallam UniversityGCSE's General Secondary Education, GCSE's General Secondary Education at Thirsk SchoolA-Levels Applied IT Applied Business Studies General Studies, A-Levels Applied IT Applied Business Studies General Studies at Thirsk School Sixth Form
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
cloudflare-api10
php10
api10
apidoc10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/cloudflare-php
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
PHP library for the Cloudflare v4 API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 35 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Cloudflare PHP library. Their work focused on extending the API to include more custom hostname creation parameters, aligning the library with the latest documentation. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the custom hostname update and retrieval methods, ensuring compatibility with the Cloudflare API. The contributions included both code modifications and test updates.
apicloudflarecloudflare-apiphpphp-library
phily245/docs.ukfast.co.uk
May 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 8 months
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