Philipp Dobrigkeit
Staff Software Engineer at Qivalis
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Dobrigkeit is a Staff Software Engineer and entrepreneurial technology leader with 13 years of experience building and managing engineering teams across fintech and data-driven startups in Germany. He has led product and engineering efforts from CEO/CTO roles to engineering management, most recently bringing European stablecoins to market and previously shaping a marketplace for lending and investments. A hands-on back-end contributor, Philipp has improved widely used open-source projects such as Zend Framework and built configurable authentication flows in ZF2 modules, showing attention to security and robust user state handling. He blends systems engineering rigor from an HPI master's with practical product instincts honed at startups, and he often navigates both strategic leadership and low-level implementation. Based in Potsdam, he’s known for applying entrepreneurial curiosity to regulated financial problems, finding pragmatic ways to digitize complex domains.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of PotsdamMaster IT Systems Engineering, Master IT Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner InstituteME310 Project-Based Engineering Design Innovation & Development, ME310 Project-Based Engineering Design Innovation & Development at Stanford University
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Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
package-development10
plugin-development10
user-authentication10
authentication10
zend-framework10
php10
drupal-module10
validators9
dependency-injection9
database8
data-integration8
databases8
datetimes8
datetime8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Aug 2012 - Jan 2013
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily contributed to the Zend Framework by fixing bugs, improving code quality, and implementing new features. Their work included addressing issues in the ViewModel component, such as fixing unset functionality, as well as fixing trailing spaces. They also refactored the Step validator to replace an internal PHP function with an accurate implementation and enhanced DateTime element with format options.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
ZF-Commons/ZfcUser
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
A generic user registration and authentication module for ZF2. Supports Zend\Db and Doctrine2. (Formerly EdpUser)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily contributed to the back-end logic of a user registration and authentication module. They implemented a configurable adapter chain for authentication, allowing for multiple authentication methods. Their work included adding event triggers for logout, integrating adapter-specific cleanup, and modifying the user controller to utilize the new adapter chain. The user also made changes related to user state management.
zendzf2phpauthenticationregistration
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