Philip Baggett
Principal Software Engineer at True Grit Logic
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Baggett is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems and guiding technical strategy. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to principal and distinguished architect roles at Self Financial, and recently founded a consulting practice while joining Mia Labs to lead architecture and delivery. Philip contributes to notable open-source work on Broadleaf Commerce, improving optimistic locking, exception handling, and validation in a widely used Java/Spring eCommerce framework. He pairs deep Java/Spring expertise with practical DevOps and systems testing experience from earlier roles, enabling reliable concurrency and security improvements at scale. Known for pragmatic refactors that prevent subtle production failures, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with a track record of shipping robust, maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (8)
javas10
exception-handling10
validation10
spring10
validations10
java10
spring-boot10
junit8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BroadleafCommerce/BroadleafCommerce
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Broadleaf Commerce CE - an eCommerce framework based on Java and Spring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the core backend functionality of the Broadleaf Commerce framework, specializing in improvements related to optimistic locking mechanisms and exception handling. They refactored optimistic lock utilities, added validation capabilities, and improved exception handling to prevent concurrency issues. Additionally, the user enhanced the framework by adding annotation composition compatibility and improving the password validation process.
spring-bootecommercecommercespringecommerce-framework
BroadleafCommerce/LegacyDemoSite
May 2015 - Nov 2016
The New Broadleaf Commerce Demo Site
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
demo-siteecommercecommerce
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