Philip Elson
Founder Sustainable Engineering Performance Advisor Human Stack
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhilip Elson is a founder and former senior software engineer turned Sustainable Engineering Performance Advisor who blends 11+ years of hands-on technical leadership with a systems-thinking approach to team health. After two decades of building and architecting large-scale e-commerce platforms and leading distributed teams, he launched Human Stack to give engineering leaders the same observability for people that they have for infrastructure. His work combines technical architecture experience (Magento, PHP, cloud integrations) with an MBA-informed focus on organisational design, measurable diagnostics, and targeted interventions rather than generic wellbeing programs. Philip’s practice centers on the Human Stack Snapshot, a low-disruption diagnostic that surfaces hidden risks like burnout and delivery decay before they become crises. Based in the UK, he’s equally comfortable in code, architecture and executive advisory rooms, and brings a rare focus on evolutionary and biological realities into engineering performance.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Bournemouth University
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Github Skills (8)
databases4
database4
react3
probot2
jekyll2
certification1
github1
magento1
Github contributions (5)
philelson/Sanitizer
May 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:96 commits, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 4 months
databasesensitivedatabases
philelson/VagrantTransient
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch, 9 tags in 2 years 5 months
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