Summary
Carmen Cerino is a Staff Design Engineer with 12 years of experience building user-focused iOS and macOS frameworks, currently leading design engineering at Adobe after roles at Figma, Grubhub, Ticketmaster, and TechSmith. She specializes in Objective-C and Swift and has a strong track record shipping high-impact mobile products — from a rapid single-developer TradeDesk mobile build to cross-product companion apps and subscription-tier architectures. Carmen blends hands-on implementation with distributed team building, often learning new technologies independently (TypeScript and Angular) to bridge product and admin tooling. Her work shows a pattern of solving practical UX and infrastructure problems, such as migrating Core Data to multi-context architectures and prototyping natural language search. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, she focuses on creating software that leaves a lasting impact on users while cultivating remote collaboration. An implicit strength is her ability to move between product-facing features and deeper architectural improvements, accelerating delivery without sacrificing long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at The University of Akron