Philip Jordan
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Westerville, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Jordan is a Senior Test Automation Engineer with 26 years of hands-on experience debugging low-level systems, device drivers, kernels, and embedded software, now applying that expertise to test automation at CareWorks Tech. He began in game development, detoured through web development, and has a proven track record of making complex systems reliable and maintainable. Philip has contributed to high-profile open-source work such as Microsoft’s VFSForGit, implementing Mac kernel extension changes for robust filesystem event handling and mirroring. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he blends deep systems-level understanding with practical automation strategies to catch hard-to-reproduce faults. Based in Westerville, Ohio, he pairs a long consulting history with steady senior engineering roles, bringing institutional knowledge and a knack for untangling “gnarly” bugs.
26 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General at DeVry University
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Github Skills (30)
filesystem10
c-language10
system-programming10
qemu10
c1110
file-operations10
x8610
c1710
kernel10
low-level-programming10
fileio10
kernel-mode10
macos10
cprogramming-language10
macos-catalina9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VFSForGit
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:211 commits, 95 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the low-level system code within the repository. Their work focused on modifying the Mac kernel extension ("kext"), specifically related to handling file system events and managing virtualisation roots. The user implemented and refactored code related to event handling, error logging, memory management, and thread safety. They also implemented code to provide a basic mirror tool, to monitor and mirror filesystem activity in a secondary target directory.
version-controllibgit2scalevirtual-file-systementerprise-scale
pmj/genccont
Jan 2011 - Apr 2015
Contributions:109 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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