David Arias
Software Engineering Manager at Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Arias is a hands-on Software Engineering Manager in Los Angeles with 17+ years in web and frontend development and 11 years in professional engineering roles. He currently leads engineering at Fender, where he advanced Fender Play from marketing site rebuilds to production web and React Native apps, maintained a component monorepo, and architected the company style guide. Known for pragmatic front-end craftsmanship, he has built progressive image renderers, authored Ember and React tooling, and mentored engineers across junior to senior levels. His background spans agency work and product teams (Ubiquiti, TBWA\Chiat\Day), giving him a strong mix of UX collaboration and scalable engineering practices like BEM, ITCSS, and component-driven design. David blends hands-on coding with leadership—still shipping features himself while focusing on team growth and technical consistency. Outside of product work he maintains a front-end-centered GitHub presence and a practical curiosity for improving build and component workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Web Design/ Programming, Bachelors, Web Design/ Programming at The Art Institute of California - Orange County
Github Skills (13)
styles8
css6
favicon6
opentype4
feather-icons4
fonts3
octicons3
heroicons3
react2
font-awesome2
woff2
branding1
ui-components1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fenderdigital/icon-library
May 2017 - Jan 2024
Font Icon Library for web projects
Contributions:6 releases, 14 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 years 9 months
iconicon-libraryocticonsfeather-iconsbranding
jemnon/woy
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
WOY Front End
Contributions:93 PRs, 361 pushes, 93 branches in 2 years 5 months
development-toolsreactconfigurablejavascriptvue
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