Phillip Sauerbeck is a Senior Designer Engineer in Portland, Oregon with over a decade of hands-on experience blending front-end engineering and product design. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and modern UI frameworks like React and Angular, and routinely elevates team design cohesion, accessibility, and interaction patterns. Phillip has a track record of shipping elegant, user-focused interfaces at startups and small teams, often acting as the sole front-end engineer while also contributing to branding and design systems. Currently at Coordinape he builds polished, streamlined UIs and tools that support both core and open-source efforts. Outside of software he runs Totem Tea, reflecting a curious, relationship-driven approach to craft and research that informs his collaborative design work. His background in classics hints at a thoughtful, structured sensibility toward language and interaction design.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Bachelor's degree Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics at University of Kentucky
A Google Play Music desktop player built with Electron, styled for the minimalist
Contributions:16 releases, 61 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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