Phillip Davis is a seasoned founding partner and engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a long technical career that reaches back to OpenVMS system administration. Based in Pokhara, Nepal, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with leadership from founding JankariTech and prior director and advisory roles in NGO and enterprise settings. A pragmatic PHP and systems developer, he has contributed robust bug fixes, test automation and CI improvements to well-known open-source projects such as pfSense, sabre/dav, PHP_CodeSniffer and Behat’s Gherkin parser. Phillip’s work shows a consistent emphasis on code quality, test coverage and compatibility (including PHP 8.1 updates) as well as practical infrastructure fixes like Cloudflare integrations and provisioning APIs. He pairs legacy systems knowledge (Fortran, Pascal, DCL/OpenVMS) with modern toolchains, which makes him unusually versatile at bridging old and new technology stacks. Colleagues can expect a detail-oriented maintainer who favors incremental, test-driven improvements that keep production systems reliable.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Master’s Degree, Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Information Technology at Charles Darwin University
North Sydney Boys High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Business (Computer and Mgmt Info Systems), Bachelor’s Degree, Business (Computer and Mgmt Info Systems) at Charles Sturt University
Contributions:1328 reviews, 1436 commits, 959 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to the `ocis` project, focusing on back-end development and testing, specifically related to the `reva` component and OCS API. Their work involved updating dependencies, adding and refactoring acceptance tests, and fixing provisioning API issues. Additionally, the user improved the test suite by introducing constants and addressing minor typos, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
:dragon_face: Next generation frontend for ownCloud Infinite Scale
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:716 reviews, 513 commits, 598 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the `owncloud/web` repository through acceptance tests. Their contributions included adjusting and refining acceptance test steps and text, modifying existing test files, and correcting minor typos within the tests. The user also updated and added features to the drone.starlark files used for continuous integration, reflecting a strong focus on test automation and CI/CD processes.
next-generationreactdragonowncloudscale
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