Philippa Main
Principal Developer at Autotrader
Rode Heath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPhilippa Main is a Principal Developer with 11 years focused on data platform engineering and two decades of broader software experience, currently leading Autotrader’s effort to make data truly self-serve. She designs and implements infrastructure-as-code solutions using YAML and TypeScript on Kubernetes, and builds Python/Airflow pipelines while shaping platform conventions and developer experience. Philippa blends hands-on coding with strategy—planning, mentoring, running the Data Academy, and curating regular Data Showcases to spread capability across the business. Her background spans large-scale Java and cloud integrations, SQL systems, and early-career C/Unix work, giving her pragmatic depth across stacks. Colleagues rely on her to turn complex data needs into maintainable platform features and to grow internal expertise rather than silo knowledge. Based in Rode Heath, UK, she enjoys simplifying infrastructure so teams can focus on clever uses of data rather than plumbing.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (30)
capability8
google-bigquery8
dbt-packages6
io-uring6
analytics-engineering6
sink6
java6
testing6
high-performance5
nio5
google-cloud5
data-lineage5
dbt5
spark4
confluent-cloud4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
philippama/java-8-practice
Sep 2015 - Nov 2019
To try out Java 8 features
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 years 2 months
java-8niojava8io-uringjava
philippama/exercism
Oct 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
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