Phillip Whelan
Senior Software Engineer at 23people
Valparaíso, Valparaiso Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Whelan is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, DevOps tooling, and CI/CD pipelines across startups and enterprise environments. Based in Valparaíso, Chile, he combines a self-taught, low-level systems mindset with practical product work—contributing to notable open-source projects like fluent-bit where he enhanced plugin functionality and fleet configuration for enterprise use. His career spans mainframe CI/CD automation, telemetry and logging at Calyptia/Chronosphere, and performance-focused PHP tooling and caching improvements, reflecting deep expertise in observability and resilient backend architectures. Phillip is comfortable across languages and platforms, from PHP and game audio integrations to Kubernetes operators and z/OS packaging, and he pairs feature work with solid test automation and compatibility fixes. Colleagues value his continuous-learning drive and knack for making low-level complexity accessible to higher-level ops and product teams.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de Las Américas (CL)
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
debugging10
caching10
debug10
c-language10
data-collection10
testing10
configuration-management10
c1110
integrations10
collector10
c1710
php10
profiling10
fluent-bit10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fluent/fluent-bit
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Fast and Lightweight Logs, Metrics and Traces processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:135 reviews, 278 commits, 199 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the input_dummy plugin within the Fluent Bit project. Their contributions include adding features like a fixed timestamp option to pre-generate dummy messages and implementing various improvements to the plugin's code generation. Furthermore, the user was instrumental in enabling the configuration of metrics and also responsible for integrating various other improvements for the calyptia fleet.
data-collectorpromqlloggingprometheuscloudnative
TurningWheel/Barony
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Barony Open Source Release
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 21 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily focused on implementing sound functionality within the game, including a base implementation using null functions, and integrating FMOD sound libraries when available. The user also added conditional compilation directives (`#ifdef`) to enable or disable sound features based on whether the FMOD library was available during the build process. Furthermore, the commits included modifications related to sound events, and the addition of code to send sound event packets out.
trinitycorelinuxc-plus-plusmulti-platformbarony
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