Philip Dubé
Principal Software Engineer at openEtG
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilip Dubé is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and refining backend systems, currently contributing to ClickHouse from Ontario, Canada. He combines deep systems and database expertise—work spans Citus/Postgres extensions, cloud backup tooling (wal-g), and performance-minded refactors in diverse languages including Go and Rust. At Microsoft he raised branch coverage and drove reliability on managed services, and his open-source contributions show a pattern of optimizing interpreters, storage, and build processes rather than just adding features. Comfortable across the stack, he also maintains an open-source HTML5 game project, revealing a long-running interest in clean UI and interactive systems. Philip's career blends production-critical engineering with pragmatic code quality improvements that quietly reduce operational burden.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Sheridan College
French, English
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Github Skills (64)
webgl10
ruby-rails10
debug10
javascript10
c-language10
postgresql10
archiving10
graphics2d10
amazon-ecs10
cloud-computing10
mysql10
rendering10
databases10
rails10
pixijs10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
citusdata/citus
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 371 commits, 338 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Philip's commits focus on fixing typos and improving the code quality of the Citus database extension, demonstrating a deep understanding of the project's codebase. Their contributions include fixing minor typos throughout the code, correcting documentation errors, and improving the clarity of the code. Their work also touches on more critical areas of the project, enhancing the stability and reliability of the database extension.
distributedrelational-databasesqlcitusscale
wal-g/wal-g
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:105 reviews, 72 commits, 75 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Philip contributed to the back-end functionality of the `wal-g` project, implementing support for Azure Storage SAS tokens and addressing related issues. They fixed bugs related to file handling and prevented overwriting of history files. The user also made improvements to the build process, updating dependencies and improving logging, and introducing a configuration option to skip `fsync`. The commits suggest a focus on cloud storage integration and optimizing backup/restore processes.
golangsqlservermysqlrestorationdatabases
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