Cynthia Diaz
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Slack
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCynthia Diaz is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications and leading teams at companies including Slack, HPE, and IBM. A UC Berkeley double major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, she blends technical depth with an understanding of human-computer interaction to prioritize intuitive UI and collaborate closely with design teams. Her background includes advisory roles bringing data analytics and AI into customer workflows, where she translates complex requirements into practical, user-centered solutions. Known for mentoring and teaching early in her career, she still draws on that coaching mindset to develop engineers and cross-functional partnerships. Based in Los Angeles, Cynthia’s work sits at the intersection of product, design, and engineering—applying cognitive principles to create more natural user experiences while scaling reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Cognitive Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
Spanish, Italian, English
Github Skills (24)
javascript9
react9
tidy8
theming7
openresty7
data-science-experience6
responsiveness6
lua5
modularity5
grommet5
accessibility5
prediction-model4
nginx4
science3
pandas2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ucbdiaz2015/Project2
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
ucbdiaz2015/test_updater
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 14 pushes, 3 tags in 1 month
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