ximanta
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4 years ago Hey Philip,
Thanks for showing interest in contributing to Spring Framework Guru.
Please share your e-mail ID to take this forward. You can send to ximanta.sarma@gmail.com
Thanks and Regards Ximanta
Phillip Ninan
My name is Phillip Ninan and I am a senior software engineer at a software consulting company called LBi Software. We have used the Spring framework since I have been there (over six years now). I frequently look to Spring Framework Guru when searching for solutions to Spring related issues. I am very excited about the opportunity to write for you and have some great ideas!
I have been the technical lead developer for several high profile MLB clients such as the Toronto Blue Jay's, the Philadelphia Philly's, and the Detroit Tigers. I was/am responsible for leading development on custom baseball scouting solutions for each one of these clubs.
For any given project I have been responsible for setting up frameworks, core functionality, as well as the more complex modules that need to be implemented. I get the opportunity to make major improvements to our core framework every ~3 years.
I mentor junior developers and spend a lot of time reviewing code. I try to promote good coding habits and have been responsible for helping develop our company's "Code of Conduct" for writing code and making pull requests.
I attend conferences throughout the year to see what other developers are doing. My latest push for my team has been to write ADR's (architectural design records) in an attempt to promote better habits when designing complex solutions. One mantra I preach to my teammates is that writing code should be the easy part, designing efficient and maintainable code is hard.
I am a strong advocate of TDD programming. I have lead annual company workshops to help educate my co-workers on how TDD can help improve their quality of code, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. The first year I lead this effort I was able to reduce server-side bugs by 24%.
Most recently, I have been very interested in DevOps. I have made a very large push in my company to use Docker to containerize our applications. Using this approach has decreased our project onboarding by almost 90%. We have utilized GitOps and integrated containerization into our Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-ninan/
Informal Blogging https://philbert2017.wordpress.com/