Philip Fishbein
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Fishbein is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile products, currently shaping commerce infrastructure at Shopify after leading engineering work at healthcare startup Patina. He blends deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, PHP/MySQL, and modern front-end stacks (React/TypeScript, React Native) with hands-on AWS infrastructure work using CDK, shipping features from prototype to production. Philip has founded and led early-stage ventures, mentored and onboarded engineers, and served as tech lead driving epics and cross-functional planning in fast-paced teams. Based in New York, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with practical product empathy—often translating clinician and stakeholder needs into lightweight, testable engineering deliverables. An early web developer turned startup CTO, he brings both legacy web craftsmanship and modern cloud-native practices to complex product problems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyBusiness Administration Learning Center, Business Administration Learning Center at Marlboro High School
Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
activemodel6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
ubuntu6
python5
spree4
rails4
automation3
testing3
cloudinary2
storage2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fishbein/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
fishbein/Invite-Referral-System
Sep 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 4 months
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