Summary
Zakiya Khabir is an engineering manager with two decades of experience leading web engineering, architecture, and training initiatives across government and enterprise projects. Based in San Diego, she now oversees product delivery and platform strategy for the California Office of Data & Innovation, guiding high-profile sites like Covid19.ca.gov and the California Design System from prototype to production. She blends hands-on full-stack and Drupal expertise with cloud-native deployment and CI/CD governance across AWS, Azure, and GCP, while introducing enterprise development best practices into state IT. A pragmatic leader and mentor, she focuses on innovation, quality assurance, and measurable team growth, and has a track record of building automated testing and release tooling that improves long-term maintainability. Her background in art education and early design work gives her an uncommon eye for usable interfaces and documentation, helping bridge design and engineering in large-scale digital services.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Art Education, BA, Art Education at Towson University
Interactive Media Certificate Program at San Diego Continuing Education