Philip Clarke
Principal Software Developer at Yahoo
Ireland
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Top SchoolPhilip Clarke is a Principal Software Developer based in Ireland with over 12 years of modern industry experience and a long engineering pedigree stretching back to roles at Ericsson. He specializes in systems-level development across Erlang, Python, C++, Linux, and AWS, and currently leads architecture and delivery work at Yahoo. Philip has a strong background in backend and metrics-focused engineering—his open-source contributions to a popular micro-server library improved observability with InstantGauges and more expressive request metrics. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that clarify intent and for shipping resilient microservice tooling in production. He pairs a B.Sc. in Information and Communication Technology with decades of telecom and internet-scale engineering, bringing steady technical leadership to complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Information and Communication Technology, B.Sc Information and Communication Technology at Queen's University BelfastLurgan College
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Github Skills (22)
jersey10
event-driven-architecture10
microservices-application10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
microservices10
metric10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
plugin8
tensorflow6
memcached6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aol/micro-server
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Microserver is a Java 8 native, zero configuration, standards based, battle hardened library to run Java Rest Microservices via a standard Java main class. Supporting pure Microservice or Micro-monolith styles.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 15 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Philip focused on enhancing the micro-server library by introducing features for capturing and reporting metrics. Their contributions included the implementation of InstantGauges, the creation of new request types for user queries, and modifications to the metrics catcher to handle these new metrics. Furthermore, they refactored and renamed classes to better reflect the project's objectives. These changes aimed to improve the monitoring capabilities of the microservices built using the library.
java-8micronautmicroservicezero-configurationzero
aolarchive/erlgraph
Sep 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
erlangforce-directederlang-vmforce-directed-graphgraph
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