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Regina Garcia

Engineering Leader

Engineering leader with experience building and shipping products at Apple and Intuit — driving full engineering cycles from roadmap to general availability, with a strong background in AI-augmented workflows, LLM integration, and platform engineering.

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Work Experience

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Intuit

Senior Engineering Manager

Mountain View, CA May 2025 — Present
  • Lead 13 engineers across Freemium (targeting 1M annualized subscriptions) and Business Feed — from roadmap definition to general availability.
  • Drove 15% lift in user engagement and 19% increase in take rates on Business Feed, with agentic workflows for transaction categorization and invoice generation.
  • Championed Cursor, MCP, and Claude Code as a cultural shift that raised team velocity while maintaining 99.99% service availability at scale.
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Apple

Engineering Lead

Sunnyvale, CA Sept 2020 — May 2025
  • Scaled a Search platform from early adopters to org-wide infrastructure across 8+ business units — Apple Support, Apple TV, Beats, and more.
  • Led UI engineering for Apple's earliest internal LLM tooling: a decision-making platform and a social signals platform with LLM-powered summarization.
  • Built self-service onboarding tooling that eliminated ad-hoc production changes and accelerated launch cycles.
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Intuit

Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, CA Jan 2019 — September 2020
  • Built the Knowledge Engine platform from scratch into a self-service tool for non-technical teams — earning two patents.
  • Led rapid development of Intuit Aid Assist during the CARES Act rollout, facilitating emergency funding for thousands of small businesses.
  • Increased QuickBooks France first-time-use conversion by 51%, accelerating international market entry.

Featured Projects

Business Feed

AI-powered insights platform for QuickBooks surfacing personalized financial recommendations and real-time insights for small business owners.

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Business Feed

Freemium

No-cost QuickBooks plan lowering the barrier to entry for small business owners — currently targeting 1M annualized subscriptions.

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Freemium

Apple Search Platform

Search platform adopted by 8+ Apple business units — from early adopters to org-wide infrastructure used by Apple Support, Apple TV, and Beats.

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Apple Search Platform

Apple Gen AI Platform

Internal LLM platform enabling teams to query private data sources and accelerate decision-making workflows at scale.

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Apple Gen AI Platform

Apple Social

Social media signals platform giving employees real-time, LLM-summarized visibility into customer sentiment around product launches.

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Apple Social

Intuit Aid Assist

Free tool helping thousands of small businesses navigate U.S. government aid programs — built and shipped during the CARES Act rollout.

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Intuit Aid Assist

Hi, I'm Regina 👋

I am an Engineering Leader focused on the intersection of product strategy and technical execution. Having shipped global-scale platforms at Apple and Intuit, I specialize in building high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams where engineers thrive. Beyond the office, I am a marathoner and currently mastering Japanese.

Regina Garcia

Skills

Leadership

  • People Management
  • Team Building
  • Performance Reviews
  • Roadmap Planning
  • Cross-functional
  • Hiring

AI & Platforms

  • Agentic AI Workflows
  • LLM Integration
  • Model Context Protocol
  • Claude Code / Cursor
  • API Design

Engineering

  • React / Next.js
  • TypeScript / Node.js
  • Python / AWS
  • PostgreSQL / Docker
  • Nginx / Git

Patents & Certifications