Lorraine Sawicki is a Technical Content Engineer, AI Engineer, and Creative Technologist with a B.S. in Computer Science and 15+ years of experience bridging engineering, design, and storytelling. She is an expert in Next.js, TypeScript, and AI prompt engineering, with a proven track record of building scalable systems for technical communication — from custom AWS serverless ML tools to complex digital taxonomies. Her career spans co-founding and running a web hosting company for a decade (grounding her in deep UNIX/Linux systems fundamentals), full-stack product engineering across startups and SaaS platforms, and most recently serving as Technical Program Manager at CadenceOneFive, a climate retrofit startup, where she translated regulatory complexity into actionable engineering work across a 900-ticket project landscape. She is adept at translating high-level infrastructure concepts into high-fidelity narratives that withstand senior engineering scrutiny, and passionate about treating content as an engineering discipline — through automation, reusable prompt libraries, LLM-integrated workflows, and context window management.
Today Lorraine runs Rosehip Studio LLC, an independent San Francisco practice where technology meets design across nature, food, gardens, and the built environment. Her studio work includes What's Growing Here, a Supabase and Next.js plant cataloging platform for homeowners and landscapers; interactive data visualizations; and AI-assisted content pipelines for drafting, review, and publishing. A designer and illustrator as much as an engineer, she sketches buildings and parks, invents constructed languages, and brings a UX-informed, systems-first sensibility to everything she ships — believing the best technical work, like the best gardens, comes from understanding the whole ecosystem rather than just following instructions.
Lorraine grew up on the outskirts of New York City. Early in her career she worked at the Brooklyn Museum, which shaped her understanding of art, curation, and exhibitions in a vibrant real-world setting. She took classes at the Art Students League of New York, studying life drawing and storytelling. Drawn to both nature and technology, her years living in Palm Beach Gardens, Seattle, and San Francisco deepened her perception of culture through direct lived experience. She has served as an art docent at two elementary schools.