CiaraMaria
- senior product engineer
- technical leader
- ai systems builder
Colorado, USA
I build complex digital products and the systems that help teams ship them.
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The short version.
I’m a senior product engineer, technical leader, and Certified ScrumMaster who likes turning complicated, half-formed ideas into products that feel clear, thoughtful, and genuinely useful. I’ve built across various industries, often in environments where the requirements are changing and the path forward has to be discovered while the work is already underway.
I view engineering as a skill to steward.
- internet since:
- myspace era
- currently learning:
- swift
- probably thinking about:
- another coffee
- creative outlet:
- crochet, gardening, content creation for my dog's insta
Where I add the most leverage.
Product Engineering
Taking products from ambiguous requirements through architecture, implementation, QA, deployment, and iteration.
Frontend Architecture
Building scalable TypeScript applications, complex workflows, reusable component systems, responsive interfaces, and maintainable frontend foundations.
AI-Native Delivery
Designing agent harnesses, shared repository knowledge, reusable skills, review gates, verification workflows, and productive human-agent collaboration.
Technical Enablement
Helping engineers, clients, and nontechnical teams understand systems, make better decisions, and become more independently capable.
Structure is what turns speed into something you can trust.
- Start with the real user problem.
- Understand the system before changing it.
- Reduce ambiguity through research and planning.
- Ship working software iteratively.
- Design for maintainability and handoff.
- Use AI to increase capacity without lowering standards.
- Treat documentation as part of the product.
- 1Research
- 2Plan
- 3Implement
- 4Verify
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node
- Tailwind
- SQL
- Playwright
- Zod
- Claude
- Codex
- Cursor
- Linear