Summary
Persa Zula is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web and cloud systems, currently based in Salt Lake City. She led cross-organizational teams at Adobe to rearchitect a font-processing pipeline into AWS Lambda microservices and GraphQL-backed services, cutting reprocessing time from two weeks to seven hours and drastically reducing operational bug volume. Her background spans full-stack engineering and product-focused work鈥攕hipping frontend redesigns with WebComponents and TypeScript, enabling CSS-only webfont delivery, and improving payment and reporting systems at prior companies. Persa began as a designer-developer, running a freelance studio and delivering UX-forward sites and CMS integrations, which gives her a practical eye for user-facing details as well as backend reliability. She combines systems-level architecture chops with a history of automating tedious workflows (image tooling, font pipelines) to free teams for higher-impact work.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Graphic Design at The University of Akron