Stephen Philp
Director - Developer at Material
Redondo Beach, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorStephen Philp is a director-level developer with 13 years of professional experience leading Ruby on Rails teams to deliver pragmatic full-stack solutions while prioritizing simplicity and fighting unnecessary complexity. Based in Redondo Beach, he combines hands-on coding (github.com/swelltrain) with architectural governance, mentoring, and aligning engineering execution to business strategy at Material. His background spans consulting and engineering roles at companies like clio.com, Pelican Programming, and American Honda, and includes practical contributions to Git workflows for SAS users and a named US patent. Known for a craftsman’s humility and clear technical communication, he routinely translates complex processes into reproducible, teachable examples for teammates and customers. He balances product-minded leadership with continued code-level involvement, making him as comfortable reviewing architecture as shipping features. An understated but persistent contributor to engineering practices, he often surfaces tooling and workflow improvements that quietly improve team velocity.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
rails8
ruby8
ruby-on-rails7
html7
mvc7
activerecord6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
swelltrain/soft_delete
Jul 2020 - Dec 2024
a gem to handle soft deleting active_record models
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ruby-gemrailsrubyactive-recordgem
swelltrain/rlocu
Jan 2014 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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