# Phillip Luther

> Frontend engineering with a designer’s eye · Product + Platform · Remote/Hybrid

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/phillipluther

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ FERMÀT
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineering Manager (Frontend) @ Scribd
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Led frontend architecture team, creating a UI component library (React/TypeScript) and modern developer platform (Node.js/Next.js/GraphQL); Led iterative, data-driven feature development of sign-up, checkout, account management, acquisition, and other business-critical flows (rapid iterative A/B testing surfaced via Looker and internal dashboards); Collaborated across engineering org to design and drive incremental migration from legacy Ruby on Rails/jQuery/CoffeeScript app to modern JAM stack (JavaScript/API/Markup); Upleveled the frontend org through mentoring in weekly 1:1s and hosting tech talks

### Technical Lead Manager (Frontend) @ Inmar Intelligence
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led frontend team as both manager and individual contributor (Vue, TypeScript, Webpack, Node.js + Java Springboot backend); Designed and drove migration from monolithic Java app to micro-frontend architecture (Single-SPA, Vue, React, TypeScript); Managed and mentored a distributed team of 5 senior engineers

### Lead Frontend Engineer / Tech Lead @ USAA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led technical development of the company’s design system and UI component library (React, TypeScript); Worked with infrastructure teams and enterprise architects to drive engineering-wide migration from legacy Java (Wicket) + jQuery application to React + APIs (JAM) stack; Developed internal sites, dashboards, and data visualizations for cross-team/-org visibility into migration progress (Storybook, D3.js); Founding member of frontend engineering guild to codify internal best practices, standards, and adoption of new technology

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Finch Computing
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Led frontend development of several bespoke single page applications (Angular, React, Node.js, RESTful APIs) showcasing the company's entity disambiguation technology; Established frontend code quality standards for greenfield projects (developer experience, boiler plating, testing, monitoring); Developed data visualizations for viewing and filtering real-time news data (React, D3.js)

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Station X
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Led frontend development of GenePool, the company's novel widget-based application for analysis and visualization of genome-scale data in clinical research and development

### UI Designer / Frontend Engineer @ USAA
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | San Antonio, TX
Front-end development and UI design for the iPad and company website.

### UI Designer / eCommerce Developer @ Ziglar, Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Website UI and back-end design/development, eCommerce development, database and back-end customization for integration with third-party partners, and web marketing and strategy.

### Web Developer @ Idearc Media
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Heavy emphasis on eCommerce for small/start-up storefronts.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/phillipluther
- Website: http://dev.phillipluther.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-01