Summary
Isabela Mclenachen is a Lead Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building design systems, accessible components, and developer-facing tooling for large products. She has led cross-functional engineering teams at Microsoft and Disney to create reusable component libraries, improve accessibility (cutting a11y bugs substantially), and streamline developer experience through visual regression and sandbox tooling. Comfortable shipping at both product and platform levels, she’s designed Figma-driven CMS and kitchen-sink bundles that enable multi-framework demos and faster adoption across large user communities. A passionate educator, she regularly crafts documentation, teaches small groups, and speaks at conferences to raise engineering and design literacy. Her background in HCI and hands-on frontend work (React, Typescript, Playwright) lets her bridge design, UX research, and scalable engineering practices. Colleagues rely on her to turn complex accessibility and UX requirements into polished, usable systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Human Computer Interaction, Master's degree Human Computer Interaction at Iowa State University
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English, Portuguese