Summary
Lydia Guarino is a senior engineering leader based in Austin with 11 years of experience scaling product and platform teams through startup and growth phases, now leading software engineering at ServiceNow after data.world’s acquisition. She blends hands-on product engineering and technical strategy—having overseen enterprise data discovery, APIs, integrated AI experiences, and onboarding that helped drive platform adoption past two million users. Lydia has progressed from IC roles to VP-level leadership, pairing delivery-focused Scrum management with product ownership and a U.S. patent for innovations developed under her direction. Her background spans open-source contributions, embedded accessibility work (including building ASL-enabled telepresence solutions), and early architectural training, giving her a rare mix of design thinking and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - Software Engineering, Master of Science - Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English, American Sign Language, Spanish