# Marbin Tan > Software Engineer at Pivotal, Inc. Location: Daly City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marbin ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Pivotal, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 • Team Anchor: Responsible for team cohesion, relaying team concerns and priorities to the project manager, coordinating with other anchors when code changes affect the team or any other team, and ensure new hires are contributing within team. • Open source contributor for Greenplum Database. • Developed and maintained features for distributed system tools to manage large Greenplum Database clusters (hundreds to thousands of nodes). Tools range from database backup, database transfer, start/stop, system compatibility checks, inconsistent internal database detection, database upgrade, and cluster initialization ### Release Engineer @ Pivotal, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 • Increased build and tests productivity by dynamically allocating hundreds of VMs in AWS instead of using limited static hardware VMs. • Integrated JIRA and git server to verify that all commits are valid and tracked. • Migrated perforce depositories to git repositories with branching history intact. • Contributed to porting Greenplum Database source code to open source Github. ### Research Assistant at ANDES lab @ UC Merced Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 • Parsed GPS packets in the MICAz MTS420 sensor board using nesC for TinyOS. • Developed a real-time graphical tool to view the thermal data collected by Grid-EYE ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Enginnering UC Merced ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marbin-tan-32757758 --- Source: https://flows.cv/marbin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marbin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29