Journey — Regina's Workspace
San Francisco Bay Area, CA ·
Journey
Visual timeline of my career.
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Technical Lead (Senior Staff Engineer), Nimbus Design System
Zscaler · Santa Clara, CA
August 2026 — Present
- Lead 7 engineers developing Nimbus, Zscaler's enterprise-wide design system supporting applications across the organization.
- Selected as Technical Lead within the first month, owning technical direction, architecture, and engineering execution.
- Drive development of reusable React components with a focus on accessibility (WCAG, axe-core), performance (Core Web Vitals), and scalability.
- Establish engineering standards through architecture reviews, code reviews, automated accessibility testing, and front-end performance best practices.
- Partner with application teams to resolve integration issues, prioritize enhancements, and improve design system adoption.
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Senior Engineering Manager
Intuit · Mountain View, CA
May 2025 — Aug 2026
- 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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Engineering Lead
Apple · Sunnyvale, CA
Sept 2020 — May 2025
- Managed a team of engineers — providing technical direction, delivery oversight, and performance feedback, and participating in hiring panels.
- Built and scaled a Search platform from a handful of early adopters to org-wide infrastructure across 8+ business units — including Apple Retail Store, Apple Support and Apple TV.
- Led UI engineering for two internal LLM-powered platforms: a decision-making tool enabling teams to query private data sources, and a social signals platform with real-time, LLM-summarized customer sentiment around product launches.
- Drove self-service onboarding tooling that eliminated ad-hoc production changes and accelerated launch cycles — and built a reusable UI component adopted by Finance and PeopleWeb.
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Senior Software Engineer
Intuit · 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.
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Senior Software Engineer
vArmour · Mountain View, CA
Nov 2015 — Sep 2017
- Engineered high-performance React/Redux interfaces with D3.js data visualizations for a security platform, improving user retention and engagement.
- Established QA standards using Jest and Enzyme, reaching 75% code coverage and reducing production regressions.
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Senior UI Engineer, Design Team
Intuit · Mountain View, CA
Apr 2013 — Nov 2015
- Built the QuickBooks Self-Employed Dashboard and QuickBooks Inventory, partnering with the QBO Pattern Team to codify motion and interaction standards within Harmony, Intuit's UX design system.
- Drove a responsive design proposal that earned sponsorship from QBO Design Leadership, leading the Responsive Design Tiger Team and shaping PM roadmap priorities across the product.
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Senior UI Engineer, Hub Team (Consumer)
PayPal · San Jose, CA
Sep 2011 — Mar 2013
- Core member of the Hub Team, building reusable shared UI components in JSP, jQuery, and CSS used across PayPal products.
- Built responsive components for the redesigned PayPal Onboarding experience using Dust, Less, Node.js, and Backbone, shipping mobile-first through a rapid Lean UX process with design and product partners.
