Philip Wood
Senior Software Engineer at Checkout.com
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhilip Wood is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years’ experience building and automating .NET systems for fast-moving digital businesses, currently shaping payment platform engineering at Checkout.com. He has a strong background in .NET across e-commerce and fundraising platforms (Moonpig, JustGiving) and a track record of stepping into technical lead and contract roles to deliver critical projects. Philip blends hands-on development with DevOps and release automation expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular Ocelot API Gateway where he replaced brittle scripts with reproducible Cake-based builds, semantic versioning, and automated releases. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs an MPhys in Physics with practical engineering instincts, often improving developer experience and CI pipelines behind the scenes.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Physics, MPhys, Physics at Lancaster University
Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
appveyor10
semantic-versioning10
cicd10
dotnet-core10
asp-net-core9
api-gateway9
powershell9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ThreeMammals/Ocelot
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
.NET API Gateway
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:57 commits, 15 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Philip's primary contribution involved enhancing the build process and release automation for the `.NET API Gateway` project. They added a Cake build script to replace existing batch scripts, incorporating features like semantic versioning, release note generation, and package publishing to AppVeyor. Further commits added release scripts and improved the build process for unstable releases. They also fixed issues related to macOS builds and test coverage, making modifications to command line scripts and unit test configurations.
api-gatewayapidotnetnetstandard20gateway
binarymash/evelyn
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
Feature toggling framework and application
Contributions:29 releases, 450 commits, 138 PRs in 2 years 1 month
feature-togglenetstandard20pythondotnetcorefeature-toggling
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