Phil K. is a Unsw at Greater Sydney Area. Colleagues describe him as "Phil and I worked on a microservices based project at ASX. Right from his addition to the team, I think every encounter that I have had with Phil only got better than the last time. His approach to drilling down the problem and keeping me aware throughout the process has been such a huge asset to me in terms of understanding the underlying details and architecture. Every time I approached him with something that I saw, he immediately recognised it as a problem and got me engaged to troubleshoot it alongside with him. When it was deemed to not be a problem, he would give me a thorough analysis of why and also encouraged me to dig deeper and just go beyond the general details of what’s visible. That in my view was probably THE MOST healthy and IDEAL way of working because it was this kind of pair testing that we piloted within the team. We both got to understand how each other thinks and I guess what I am trying to say is knowledge shared – is the best form of its presence. When you think of an ideal world scenario of a “one team approach, shift left, pair testing ” with Dev and Test completely aligned, I think working with Phil has been a living example of it and I am immensely glad and grateful that I got to be at the receiving end of it. Phil’s simple yet strong voice was a good reminder that there’s so much to learn in the world – and it’s time to get right down to it! I’d like to pass my deepest appreciation to him and he will always be someone who has my utmost respect. Kudos to Phil!" and "Phil is hardworking, easygoing and pragmatic engineer, who likes to solve complex problems with simple solutions. He got good understanding of high level context and at same time very good attention on technical details. Phil is the one whom you can rely on getting the job done. I will miss the design discussions we had on projects. I highly recommend him for next challenge. "