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Mayra Sanchez

Analytics Engineer

Mayra is an experienced engineer and designer. Solving complex problems and using both sides of her brain is one of Mayra’s favorite things about being a Design Engineer.

On Mayra’s free time, she loves to constantly learn but also disconnect as much as possible. Outside of work, you can likely find Mayra at a theme park, beach, or exploring a new hike!

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Experience

  • Design Engineer

    NIKE

    June 2020 → May 2025

    - Lead product designer in the data engineering organization owning over 10+ original projects.
    - Full-Stack Engineer building custom web apps with React JS, Cursor, and Claude Code to bridge the gap between handoffs from data engineers and stakeholders
    - Collaborated closely with Nike Accessibility designers and engineers as a design engineer to help ensure internal NIKE platforms follow appropiate guidelines

  • Lead Front-End Engineer

    First Gen X

    June 2025 → August 2025

    - Engineered responsive, accessibility-friendly front-end in React.js with scalable, reusable components.
    - Designed intuitive, adaptive UI with interactive elements to improve engagement and student experience.

  • Product Designer

    Encore

    August 2024 → December 2024

    - Designing and improving UI for a mobile app focused on bidding and selling, utilizing Adobe Suite, Figma, and Notion.
    - Enhancing user experience and retention to drive higher adoption rates for the startup's platform.
    - Collaborating on engineering tasks to ensure seamless UI implementation across mobile and web platforms.

Services

  • Product Design & Research

    Mayra approaches product design through both research and craft, grounded in a Master's in User Experience and hands-on leadership on internal design projects at Nike. Their work centers accessibility as a core design principle rather than an afterthought, ensuring products work for the widest possible range of people. Beyond individual features, they think in systems. Building products that scale, adapt to future needs, and resolve conflicts between competing requirements before they become costly problems.

  • Software Development

    Mayra builds full-stack software with a focus on shipping real, working products. Using React to develop and launch both web and mobile applications, both independently and alongside teams of senior engineers. As a strong advocate for AI-assisted development, they integrate tools like Cursor, Claude, and Codex into their workflow, using them to move faster without sacrificing code quality.

  • Data Analytics & Engineering

    Mayra brings over a year of focused training in data engineering, working hands-on with Databricks and Databricks AI to build and maintain data pipelines. Their technical toolkit spans SQL, Python, and PySpark, applied across pipeline architecture and data migrations. The focus throughout is on moving and structuring data reliably so it's ready for the systems and people who depend on it.

Education

  • Arizona State University

    Masters of Science in User Experience | GPA 4.0

  • California State University Long Beach

    Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science

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