Phil Harvey
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ABOUT ME
Senior Software Engineer, 15+ years experience
Senior Software Engineer, 15+ years experience
I am a senior software engineer, specializing in backend/API development. I strive to strike an appropriate balance in my work between production and perfection, the pragmatic and the ideal. I love design discussions, weighing trade offs and coming to practical decisions that move us forward to implementation on firm ground. Known among my peers for quickly finding application to everyday problems from theoretical/philosophical foundations, I am a go to person for things like REST/Hypermedia API design, HTTP, caching, testing strategies, program correctness/software verification, code reviews, code quality, and software architecture.
English
Central Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined April 2015
EXPERTISE
10 years experience
12 years experience
12 years experience
5 years experience
I am a big fan of functional programming, and have been moving away from object oriented programming.
I am a big fan of functional programming, and have been moving away from object oriented programming.
18 years experience
17 years experience
PostreSQL's dialect is the most familiar to me since I support a 400GB+ production database, but I am experienced with SQL in general, ha...
PostreSQL's dialect is the most familiar to me since I support a 400GB+ production database, but I am experienced with SQL in general, having worked with SQL Server, MySQL, and HiveQL.
5 years experience
One of my favorite languages, learning it changed me forever. I now write very different code even when I'm not writing in Haskell itself!
One of my favorite languages, learning it changed me forever. I now write very different code even when I'm not writing in Haskell itself!
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(15 reviews)
Lucas
October 2015
Phil's sharp thinking saved me hours of digging into an issue! I'm impressed.
JB
May 2015
Got me started with maven&git. Great introduction to them both, using a real problem i was having - thanks Phil!
Nick
May 2015
Very efficient and helpful
John Balladares
May 2015
Phil was great! I originally put out a request for help creating my first single page app, but I ended up asking him several novice questions instead. Phil didn't mind at all and enthusiastically clarified several general programming concepts that have been confusing me for awhile.
Adam Smith
May 2015
He was a really big help. Solved my problem in under 5 minutes.
Bob Walsh
May 2015
Phil is very easy to talk to, developer-to-developer, and helped me see what I was missing with the SSL issue. We also discussed Git and real world strategies and why to use them. Very helpful.
Tom Connole
April 2015
Awesome help! Clearly enjoys helping people!
Chris Aalid
April 2015
Great job! Solved my semi-obscure PHP/CakePHP problem.