Summary
Brian Wilgus is a veteran UI engineering leader with 25+ years of experience and a 12-year recent track record managing enterprise front-end teams across startups and large corporations. As VP of UI Engineering he has repeatedly led multi-disciplinary, geographically distributed teams to deliver and maintain mission-critical web and mobile applications—often owning architecture, release and code-quality decisions for portfolios worth millions. He combines deep hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, Angular and platform tooling with a practical focus on reusable component libraries, security and production support. Known for clear cross-functional communication, he translates executive priorities into quarterly plans and daily engineering execution while fostering strong loyalty among direct reports. An early UI technologist who shipped Flash and game UI work before pivoting to modern web stacks, he brings both creative UX sensibility and rigorous delivery discipline to product teams.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer