Summary
Nina Strachan is a San Francisco-based engineering manager with 11 years of frontend and platform leadership, currently directing teams at Etsy. She specializes in building front-end platform teams, design systems, and accessibility programs that make products inclusive while boosting engineering velocity and morale. At Workday, she led a 10-person accessibility organization across Eng and QA, implemented automated accessibility testing, delivered accessible features for Fortune 10 customers, and authored the company’s first-ever accessibility strategic roadmap. Earlier roles include guiding Lob’s frontend modernization and framework selections, and driving equity and inclusive interviewing practices. Her career spans JPMorgan Chase, LaunchDarkly, and other growth-stage teams, reflecting a blend of enterprise and startup sensibilities. She holds a BS in Psychology with a biology emphasis and Japanese from UC Davis, a combination that informs a human-centered, cross-cultural approach to engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology with a Biology Emphasis Japanese, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology with a Biology Emphasis Japanese at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese, Japanese