Phillip Whittlesea-clark
Chief Software Architect at Cirium
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Whittlesea-clark is a Chief Software Architect with 14 years of hands-on and leadership experience designing organisation-wide technical strategy and pragmatic solutions. He blends deep engineering craft—writing reusable libraries and improving developer tooling—with coaching agile teams to foster continuous improvement. Based in Southampton, he has progressed from Java desktop and web services developer to principal architect roles at Cirium, consistently staying close to code to keep solutions grounded in real team needs. An active open-source contributor, he improved OWASP Dependency-Check’s CLI and Ant integrations, demonstrating a focus on usability and secure supply-chain tooling. Phillip pairs a First-Class MEng in Computer Science with a dungeon-master’s knack for orchestrating complex systems and people.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, First Class with Hons., MEng, Computer Science, First Class with Hons. at University of Southampton
Github Skills (11)
ant-task10
javas10
java10
cli10
jtest9
junit9
audit8
security8
auditing8
vulnerability-detection8
maven-plugin3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dependency-check/DependencyCheck
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
OWASP dependency-check is a software composition analysis utility that detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in application dependencies.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) functionality and Ant task integration for the OWASP Dependency-Check project. Their work involved adding tests, refactoring existing test classes, and expanding the CLI's capabilities to handle multiple suppression files. Furthermore, the user improved the Ant task by allowing multiple suppression files and addressing deprecated property usage. This demonstrates a focus on improving the tool's flexibility and usability.
gradle-plugindependenciesjenkins-pluginbugbountyant-task
SourceKettle/sourcekettle
Jun 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:463 commits in 1 year 10 months
management-toolproject-managementopen-source-projectcode-management
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