# Tan T.

> Techlead for consumer-facing fullstack | React & GraphQL & SPA | Engineering Excellence

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

Aim higher, the challenge will be more rewarding.

With almost two decades of experience in the ever-evolving web ecosystem, I have honed my skills at both high-tech giants and pioneering unicorn startups. My career has been dedicated to crafting exceptional consumer-facing web applications, always striving to leverage the latest mainstream technologies to provide unparalleled user experiences across all devices.

Professional Fullstack Highlights:

· Extensive Experience: Diverse background ranging from established tech companies to innovative startups.
· User Experience Focus: Committed to delivering top-notch user experiences through responsive design, single-page applications (SPA), server-side rendering (SSR), and microservices.
· Continuous Improvement: Strong emphasis on engineering excellence and continuous system enhancement, ensuring alignment with target architecture.

Core Strengths:

Next.js / React / TypeScript / GraphQL / Node.js / Prisma / NestJS

Frontend performance tuning and UI craftsmanship:

- Proficient in creating reactive and responsive modern UIs
- Expertise in server-side rendering (SSR) using Next.js
- Skilled in developing single-page applications (SPAs)
- Extensive experience with state management using React Context and Redux

Backend for Frontend (BFF):

- Advanced use of GraphQL for frontend communication
- Implementation of OpenAPI for microservices interaction
- Design and development of microservices and orchestrator layers using NestJS

Relevant Skills:

- Token-based authentication (JWT)
- CI/CD deployment to Kubernetes (K8S)
- Docker container management
- Integration with headless CMS systems
- Microfrontend systems design and implementation

My goal is to continue pushing the boundaries of what's possible in web development, exploring how emerging AI technologies can enhance seamless, intuitive, and robust web applications that delight users and drive business success.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Hippo Insurance
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Successfully led a task force to migrate the legacy Angular lead flow to a new React with BFF version, resulting in a promotion to Staff Software Engineer in March 2022.

Served as a techlead for a 5-member team in Palo Alto, organizing and leading frontend guild meetings across the organization, and providing design and review guidance on FE/BFF topics for teams in Poland and Israel.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hippo Insurance
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Designed and prototyped the next-generation presentation service to support multiple insurance flows in the frontend.

Led and developed a full-stack consumer lead flow project using React hooks and Redux on the frontend, GraphQL in the BFF middle layer, and Safari microservice (NestJS-based) on the backend, contributing directly to the company’s successful IPO (NYSE: HIPO) in 2021.

Designed and led the “POD in BFF” project, migrating the GraphQL in BFF gateway from legacy RESTful API in React FE, as part of the engineering excellence effort in 2022. The project was successfully implemented, receiving positive feedback from leadership.

### Software Engineer III @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Rewrote the Python version of the update mask API software component, enhancing inter-software communication and data efficiency.

Designed and developed industry-leading web-based software, including next-generation technologies and innovative applications to organize and make the world’s information universally accessible.

Key Contributions:

Updated the UI for the resource planning management system in Google Cloud, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Designed information retrieval algorithms to handle vast amounts of data, addressing the needs of a rapidly increasing Internet user population.

Developed massively scalable, distributed software applications and systems.

Worked independently on complex, diverse-scope problems for various Google products.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, test, monitor, and improve search and mobile applications, ensuring high performance and reliability.

### Software Engineer @ Curriculum Associates
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | North Billerica, Massachusetts, United States
As a frontend engineer at Curriculum Associates, I contributed to two core business projects, applying advanced techniques such as functional programming. My work included significant use of currying in the "Educator Dashboard" project.

Diag Player Project:

Developed an interactive HTML5 media player application supporting rich media such as images, sounds, vector animations, and user interactivity (e.g., drag and drop, click interactions).

Utilized core technologies including:
-> Webpack
-> React with Flux
-> CREATE JS (preload, canvas, sound, tween)
-> Sinon with Karma unit test framework and PhantomJS
-> ESLint
-> MathJax (mathematical notation framework)
-> SVG Optimizer

Led memory leak investigations and developed SVG file optimizations.


Educator Dashboard Project:

Worked on a large, scalable single-page application (SPA) with over 40 developers at peak times, collaborating effectively using GitHub Enterprise.
Employed advanced tech stacks:
-> React with Functional Programming
-> Redux-First Router
-> Enzyme Unit Test Framework
-> Redux Saga
-> Flow Type
-> Prettier with CI

Contributed primarily to report page development, creating custom charts using SVG format and developing a custom React table to handle and display massive datasets (2000+ rows) interactively.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer and Information Science
Fordham University

### Northeastern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tan3435

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Last updated: 2026-03-22