Philip Reinken
Options Engineer at Herman Miller
Holland, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Reinken is an engineer with nine years of hands-on experience bridging manufacturing, DevOps, and commerce platform development. Currently an Options Engineer at Herman Miller, he applies practical design modifications to custom furniture orders while drawing on deep process and automation expertise gained running complex manufacturing lines. Philip is an active open-source contributor to Shopware (both v5 and v6), improving core storefront and CMS behaviors and adding editor features that affect how merchants present content. His background in chemical engineering and earlier roles at Innotec and GM gave him uncommon exposure to controls, lasers, vision systems, injection molding and quality systems—skills he leverages when solving cross-disciplinary problems. Comfortable with both back-end fixes and front-end enhancements, he blends production-focused engineering discipline with community-driven software contributions. Outside work he signals community and technical involvement (DevOps at Shopware and amateur radio callsign DL6NX), reflecting a maker mindset that spans hardware and software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering at Calvin College, Chemistry, Graduated, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering at Calvin College, Chemistry, Graduated at Calvin College
Spanish
Github Skills (19)
cms10
javascript10
storefront10
php10
front-end-development10
vue10
shopware10
lessc10
vue-jsx10
documentation10
api-design9
ecommerce9
sc9
symfony9
symfony-ux9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shopware/shopware
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 1.500 community extensions
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 202 reviews, 232 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the Shopware 6 storefront platform by allowing links in the admin text editor to be displayed as buttons. They implemented new functionalities for the text editor, including features to display links as primary or secondary small buttons. The user's code changes also involved modifications to the CMS element for the image gallery and fixes to the document and order detail page.
ecommerceshopwareapifirstshopping-cartvue
shopware5/devdocs
Jun 2017 - Jan 2022
Shopware 5 Developers Website
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:10 reviews, 34 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily focused on migrating example plugins within the Shopware 5 documentation repository. Their work involved updating plugin code for various functionalities such as service interactions, risk rule implementation, and slogan display. Additionally, the user modified the documentation by adding a link to the Shopware 6 documentation and incorporating features such as API badges with copy functionality.
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