# Elliott Tan

> Software Engineer - Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/elliotttan

Software Engineer experienced with developing enterprise scale CI systems and supporting services at Salesforce.com.  Earned Bachelor's and Master's degreesfocused in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Improved scalability of customer facing services to support left-shifting of testing to the code review stage using ML-suggested test selection
- Designed and developed a highly available code submission service to fulfill the security requirement for the migration of build/test to the public cloud
- Utilized VM snapshotting for precommit testing to be able to reuse the build across multiple test configurations, as well as to provide developers an identical workspace for failure reproducibility

### Software Engineer - Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
- Developed a pipeline to build, test, and integrate changes from Git-based projects to the core monolith in Perforce
- Improved the functionality of the Precheckin service and infrastructure as a gateway for developers to submit code changes
- Designed and developed web dashboard pages to help the Operations team manage the environment
- Setup provisioning and deployment of services to public/private clouds using Terraform

### Software Engineering Intern – Automation Infrastructure @ Salesforce
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
• Designed and developed a live monitoring system of the internal check-in process
• Added features to the internal test results webpage

### Associate Application Developer Intern @ Workday
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Pleasonton, CA
• Added projected balance display options to Absence Plan creation and entry
• Wrote automation tests for added features
• Converted tenant-dependent test scenarios to tenant-independent scenarios

### Software Intern - Platform Engineering @ Arista Networks
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara, CA
• Added functionality to the diagnostic shell run to test network switch hardware
• Wrote scripts to run test scenarios through a web GUI

### QA Software Engineering Intern @ GoPro
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Mateo, CA
• Designed test cases based on specification documents to test firmware of cameras and accessories


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elliottktan

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Last updated: 2026-03-29