Eric Garcia
Principal Engineer & Systems Architect
Specializing in cross-platform design systems, developer platforms, and robust cloud-native architecture.
Professional Summary
Principal Engineer and Systems Architect with over 11 years building enterprise software — from mobile platforms and Go services to AI-assisted workflows and systems that survive production. Track record designing cross-platform design systems for 7,000+ users, shipping secure microservices under tight SLAs, and maintaining open-source design-system tooling (Carbon). Proficient in React, React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, and Go.
Professional Experience
Principal Engineer - Systems Architect
Verizon
- Mobile Design System: Architected and built a custom multi-platform mobile design system from the ground up, starting from a foundation of shadcn/ui and
reactnative-reusables, customized for brand identity and developer ergonomics. - Design-to-Code Handoff: Bridged the product development lifecycle by establishing the mobile design system portfolio while continuously enhancing the desktop library, accelerating velocity across engineering and product teams.
- Enterprise Scale: Scaled application architecture and component systems to serve 7,000+ active internal users, supporting staff from field engineers to leadership.
- AI Enablement: Designed and delivered an AI-powered feedback sanitization engine to process and validate downstream customer and reseller messages.
- Technical Roadmaps: Acted as primary engineering lead on large-scale features, defining development scope, scoping architectures, and conducting reviews.
Advisory Software Engineer (Quote to Cash)
IBM Corp.
- Microservices & API Architecture: Led the development and maintenance of core sales deal microservices (Go, React, TypeScript) on the Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) platform, driving database performance improvements and legacy system modernizations.
- Security Engineering: Triaged and resolved critical high-priority security vulnerabilities (e.g. logging and watcher leaks of config keys and API secrets), executing production hotfixes within a strict 24-hour turnaround.
- CI/CD & Developer Experience: Streamlined pipeline integrations, enhanced testing tooling, and promoted code quality standards (such as untyped Go constants) during developer chapter calls.
- Open-Source Design Systems (Extra Initiative): Core maintainer of the IBM Carbon Design System's
gatsby-theme-carbonproject, leading Gatsby major upgrades, fixing theme bugs, and maintaining strict WCAG/a11y compatibility for hundreds of global portals.
Staff Software Engineer (Migration & Analytics)
IBM Corp.
- Go Migration Utility: Built, architected, and expanded a CLI-based migration tool written in Go to transition enterprise client data seamlessly between major versions of IBM API Connect.
- Internationalization: Spearheaded architectural changes to translate and globalize the CLI tool, addressing client specifications directly.
Staff Software Engineer (API Connect)
IBM Corp.
- Enterprise Analytics: Developed telemetry, analytics, and enterprise data integration endpoints for a cloud-native API management portal.
- Collaboration: Partnered across design and engineering silos to preserve component stability and ensure performance under high workloads.
Software Engineer (MobileFirst Support)
IBM Corp.
- Level 3 Support: Audited customer codebases, diagnosed runtime bugs, and deployed core software patches to MobileFirst foundation modules.
- Technical Content: Created end-to-end integration push notification samples and developer guides in Swift, Java, and Objective-C.
Technical Skills
Languages
Frameworks & Design Systems
Tooling & Infrastructure
Standards
Open Source Projects
HomeHarmony / Parable Bloom
Author
Cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter, Firebase, and design-token architectures.
gvtech-design
Author & Maintainer
Multi-platform React and React Native design system monorepo (Nx, TypeScript, Storybook) powering Garcia Ventures apps.
gatsby-theme-carbon
Core Maintainer
Official Carbon Design System Gatsby theme — accessible foundations for hundreds of global portals.
Education
Full Sail University
B.S. in Mobile Development
Graduated 10/2015 · Winter Park, FL
Focused on native mobile application development, visual assets, scalable infrastructures, and cross-platform layouts.
Certifications & Badges
- •Developer Profession - Level 3 Expert
IBM Credential · Sep 2023
- •Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM Credential · 2016
- •Carbon Design System Developer Essentials
IBM Credential - React · Jul 2019
- •IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Credential · Jan 2020
- •Google AI Essentials Specialization
Google / Coursera · May 2026