Philip Sharp
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarPhilip Sharp is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years' experience building and rescuing web applications, particularly in LAMP stacks using PHP, MySQL, and Apache. He excels at making sense of messy legacy codebases, shipping monitoring and metrics improvements, and moving brittle systems toward reliability. A careful back-end contributor to the Data Transfer Project, Philip has implemented OAuth1 enhancements and provider-specific fixes for SmugMug and Flickr, demonstrating attention to interoperability and real-world file/format edge cases. Based in Silver Spring, Maryland, he prefers concrete technical conversations—ask for specifics—and brings a steady, bug-first approach to long-lived production systems.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
oauth10
price-data10
java10
data-model10
data-set10
data-portability10
flickr9
api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dtinit/data-transfer-project
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for platforms to build interoperable user data portability features. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both into and out of participating online service providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the data transfer project. Their work includes fixing bugs, such as a casting error, and implementing features like additional parameters for OAuth1 configurations. They also worked on specific provider integrations like SmugMug and Flickr, improving the functionality of their exporters and importers with changes to file handling, header formatting and support for different file types. Their contributions involved modifications to existing code for increased functionality and bug fixes.
datadata-portabilityonline-serviceparticipatingportability
philipsharp/afieldguidetoelephpants
May 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 reviews, 290 commits, 96 PRs in 7 years 9 months
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