Philip Liddell
Principal Software Engineer at Elanco
United Kingdom
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RockstarPhilip Liddell is a Principal Software Engineer based in the UK with 13 years of experience building tools and backend systems across games, tooling, and enterprise software. He brings deep expertise in database engineering and migrations—contributing to the widely used Flyway project by fixing SQL parsing edge-cases and improving cloud and DBMS compatibility—alongside hands-on systems and tooling work from roles at Frontier, Redgate, and 1Spatial. Philip blends practical engineering leadership with a maker’s mindset: hobby game development, tool creation, and dabbling in art and writing inform a pragmatic, creative approach to problem solving. Currently driving architecture and delivery at Elanco, he’s known for turning complex integration challenges into reliable, maintainable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
databases10
sql10
java10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
oracles9
sql-server9
oracle9
db28
devops8
amazon-athena6
maven6
flyway6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flyway/flyway
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:11 releases, 92 commits, 12 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily focused on enhancing the database migration tool Flyway by addressing various bug fixes and feature implementations. They resolved issues related to parsing SQL statements for different database systems, including MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server, and ensured compatibility with cloud storage. The user also enhanced database compatibility to support various SQL Server configurations, like the ability to connect using integrated security. In addition, the user implemented support for PostgreSQL extensions when cleaning the database.
sqlserverrdbmsdatabase-migrationscontinuous-deploymentaurora
infinity8/QuaestumFacere
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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