Philip Whiteside
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Whiteside is a Solutions Architect with nine years of experience designing and delivering cloud and network solutions across enterprise environments, currently at AWS after a multi-year technical architecture career at Cisco. He combines deep systems engineering roots with hands-on backend development—evidenced by contributions to projects like TasmoAdmin where he improved firmware upload handling and auto-update logic. Based in England, Philip blends pragmatic problem-solving with a playful, sometimes contradictory passion for technology that drives both automation and attention to operational detail. He has a background in web administration and accessibility work, including BSL interpreting and custom learning-management tooling, which informs his user-focused approach to solution design. Known for turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable systems, he brings both infrastructure rigor and a curiosity for low-level integration challenges.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC, IT Computing, BTEC, IT Computing at Preston CollegeBSC (hons), IT Computing, BSC (hons), IT Computing at University of Central Lancashire
british sign language
Github Skills (8)
file-handling10
php10
tasmota10
gzip9
docker4
dockers4
frontend3
web-frontend3
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
TasmoAdmin/TasmoAdmin
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
TasmoAdmin is an administrative platform for devices flashed with Tasmota
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 17 days
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the backend logic of the TasmoAdmin project. Their main focus was on adding GZIP support for firmware uploads, modifying the upload functionality within the `upload.php` file to handle compressed firmware files. They also made updates to support detection and mixed file uploads, indicating a focus on improving the firmware update process and related file handling. The user also touched on the auto-update feature by improving the language handling and file download logic.
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PhilipWhiteside/apiRequestScheduler
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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