Philip Birnie
Partner & Developer at Escape Hatch
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Birnie is a pragmatic web developer and co-owner of two independent studios with over a decade of hands-on experience building robust back-end systems, APIs, and e-commerce platforms. He specializes in PHP-driven stacks (Laravel, WordPress, Magento, WooCommerce), front-end HTML/CSS/JS, Linux server tuning, and CDN caching strategies that measurably improve performance and reduce hosting costs. Philip pairs creative collaboration with designers and agencies with practical, solutions-oriented engineering—favoring maintainable, well-tested code over novelty. His background in atmospheric science and large-scale data systems informs a methodical, metrics-driven approach to problem solving and performance auditing. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he is focused on project and partner work rather than full-time roles, bringing entrepreneurial ownership and a track record of measurable impact to client engagements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Worthington High SchoolM.A. Geography, M.A. Geography at The Ohio State University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,124reputation
90kreached
15answers
12questions
Github Skills (36)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
kickstarter9
gutenberg8
javascript7
zoho7
vagrant7
html6
rows6
alfred-workflow6
codeigniter6
php6
html-table6
magento6
content-management-system6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
philbirnie/philbirnie.github.io
Jan 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:699 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
philbirnie/magento2-7thst
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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