# Tanay Vardhan

> Software Engineer at Shepherd

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Shepherd
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Jose, California, United States
Part of the Global Pay Later organization, working on core experiences and features for PayPal’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) product offerings

### Software Engineer II @ PayPal
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Software Engineer II @ PayPal
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Timonium, Maryland, United States

### Founder @ Turkbox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New Delhi Area, India
A content monetization platform for online publishers to drive reader revenue by enabling readers to perform CAPTCHA-like data classification and annotation tasks. 

https://www.turkbox.io

### Web Developer, Siebel Center for Design @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Developed a responsive and accessible prototype for the SCD Website (and CMS) using React, GraphQL and Gatsby.js

### Software Engineering Intern @ Amadeus IT Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Villeneuve-Loubet, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Developed prototypes to explore applications of real-time flight positions from ADS-B data sources to assist passengers

### Web Developer, Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Created an in-house content management system for Digital Asia, an online collection of educational films on Asia, curated by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois

### Frontend Developer Intern @ Amadeus IT Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
Built web application to find flights for vacations using minimal search parameters and display results on a map-based user interface

### Software Engineering Intern @ Amadeus IT Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area
Developed web platform to reduce time spent on updating project statuses and improve high-level visibility for managers and stakeholders


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### High School in Physics, Chemistry, Math (PCM) with Computer Science
Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tanayv
- Website: http://tanay.io

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Source: https://flows.cv/tanayvardhan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tanayvardhan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05