Phillip Verheyden
Staff Software Engineer at Steadily Insurance Company
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Verheyden is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 15 years of experience building developer-focused eCommerce and logistics systems, most recently at Broadleaf Commerce and Shipwell and now at Steadily Insurance. He blends backend Java/Spring expertise with full‑stack skills—having modernized demo apps, improved Spring Boot integrations, and enhanced UI features like wishlists to improve developer and user experiences. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed edge cases in Dependabot’s core Python logic and helped evolve Broadleaf’s core platform, demonstrating both platform-level architecture and hands-on bugfixing. Known as a software craftsman, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a history of leadership roles, bringing a bias for maintainability and real-world operational improvements.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
BroadleafCommerce/LegacyDemoSite
Jun 2012 - Jul 2017
The New Broadleaf Commerce Demo Site
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 349 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Phillip contributed to both front-end and back-end aspects of the demo site. Their commits include modifications to HTML files within the admin section for internationalization, as well as changes to the CSS and JavaScript files. They also worked on enhancing the wishlist functionality, demonstrating involvement in user interface and feature enhancements. The user's work involved database interactions and improving user experience.
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BroadleafCommerce/DemoSite
May 2017 - Apr 2019
The Broadleaf Heat Clinic Spring Boot application
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily focused on configuring and updating the demo application to align with the latest Broadleaf Commerce dependencies and Spring Boot configurations. This included moving resources to the classpath for JAR execution and integrating filters for entity management and resource URL encoding. Furthermore, the user made modifications related to API configuration, including adding Swagger documentation and fixing security configurations. Overall, the user's contributions enhanced the application's maintainability and integration with modern Spring Boot features.
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