Philip Stephens
Software Engineer at Google
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarPhilip Stephens is a software engineer with 16 years of experience and a long tenure at Google, based in the Denver metropolitan area. He blends systems-level Linux expertise with spatial thinking—evident from GitHub work that sits "somewhere between geography and Linux"—and contributes to open-source scientific tooling. Philip has improved documentation and fixed bugs in PySAL, the widely used Python Spatial Analysis Library, showing a focus on clarity and reproducibility in technical systems. He excels at backend development and technical writing, turning complex code and licenses into readable, well-documented projects that others can adopt and maintain.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
restructuredtext10
python10
sphinx10
documentation10
testing8
git5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pysal/pysal
Feb 2010 - Dec 2016
PySAL: Python Spatial Analysis Library Meta-Package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:460 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily focused on improving the PySAL library's documentation. Their commits involved removing nonconforming license material, adding and modifying documentation to improve readability and format, and including examples, ensuring the clarity and completeness of the documentation. The user also addressed a bug fix for an existing module.
meta-packagepythonspatial-analysispysalspatial
pastephens/aws-terraform-cloud-q
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Deploy 1TB to 6PB with Terraform
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
ansibleinfrastructure-managementterraformterraform-provideraws
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