# Tanner Hess Webber > Nerd Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tannerhesswebber As a software engineer, and as a person, my goal is to empower people. This has led to a deep passion for teaching/mentoring and working with mission-driven companies to make impactful and felt differences in the lives of both end-users and teams. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Addepar Jan 2024 – Present | United States ### Founding Product Engineer @ Equi Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | United States ### Founding Software Engineer (Frontend Focus) @ Opto Investments Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Owned the greenfield frontend product and team from pre-alpha through public release. Product Engineering - Designed and developed a configuration-driven multi-step form library enabling 
 the creation and management of complex legal workflows via a CMS - Partnered with design to define, build, and migrate to an official Opto design 
 system, speeding up feature delivery by a factor of 4 - Optimized performance through both user experience hacks and true API and database optimizations, minimizing the number of performance-related bug reports and speeding up network calls by up to 94% Platform Engineering - Established and maintained third-party integrations; streamlining developer
experience around feature flags, analytics, automated QA, environment variables, etc. - Built an API testing framework that unified testing technologies across TypeScript, Java, and Python codebases Leadership - Architected a skills-based hiring process and made final hiring decisions, efficiently scaling the team from 1 to 7 engineers - Provided mentorship and coaching in both hard- and soft-skills to teammates of all levels of seniority across the engineering organization - Drove the organization as a whole to identify and adopt an intentional culture based on growth, transparency, and trust ### Lead Managing Instructor, Principal Full Stack Developer @ Galvanize Inc Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Remote Lead a team of instructors with a focus on upskilling both their technical and instructional aptitudes while empowering them within the vagaries that comes with contracted curriculum development and instruction. - Acted as PM and/or Technical Lead for internal projects building out tools to automate and streamline internal processes - Worked with the LMS team to improve existing features and develop new features - Maintained multiple internal developer tools - Spearheaded a curricula transformation involving a five-phase redesign to establish mature and modular content - Incepted and formalized policies emphasizing instructor development and well-being - Designed curriculum and resources for non-technical personnel and clients to explain the value provided by my team - Worked to formalize a pipeline and curriculum that upskills recent bootcamp grads beyond entry-level positions with a focus on production-level applications using modern tooling and microservice chassis ### Lead Enterprise Instructor, Principal Full Stack Developer @ Galvanize Inc Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote Lead global enterprises in making digital transformations through the adoption of modern engineering practices and the up-skilling and re-skilling of their existing workforce in classroom and controlled lab environments. - Continued with all of the activities from Associate Enterprise Instructor below - Led classroom delivery and curriculum development efforts within the team of instructors - Developed curricular solutions that match the needs of our Enterprise clients ### Associate Enterprise Instructor, Full Stack Software Developer @ Galvanize Inc Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote Assist global enterprises in making digital transformations through the adoption of modern engineering practices and the re-skilling of their existing workforce. - Created curricula primarily within JavaScript, TypeScript, React, TDD, and XP/ Agile methodologies - "Upskilled" classes of up to 40 career engineers and recent CS graduates - Incepted and owned internal tools including a quote generator and a VSCode extension for curriculum development in the learning management system (LMS) - Consulted on new and existing client teams to integrate the concepts from the curriculum into the development environment in terms of the technology stack, code implementation, and XP practices ### Hacker in Residence @ Hack Reactor @ Galvanize Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area As a Hacker in Residence, you are responsible for supporting the learning of budding software engineers, creating productive supplementary content, and generating a sense of community. The position entails everything from emotionally supporting students through the trauma of imposter syndrome to explaining minute details like the difference between 'es2015' and 'env' in their Babel configuration file. Software engineering will always be complex, but it doesn't have to be hard. ### Business Consultant @ Self Employed Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 As a consultant for small and medium businesses, I discovered that many of the problems that arise are due to a lack of access to data. I worked with owners and operators to grow their businesses by leveraging technology to make data-driven decision-making the default. Together, we scaled teams, improved processes, and rearchitected business models through the data that they already had at their fingertips. ## Education ### Business Administration in Management and Operations University at Buffalo ### Computer Software Engineering Hack Reactor Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tbhesswebber --- Source: https://flows.cv/tannerhesswebber JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tannerhesswebber/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22