Summary
Tanya Breshears is a versatile principal designer and product strategist based in Oakland, with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience spanning design, front-end engineering, and startup leadership. At Anomalous Works LLC, she leads product strategy, storytelling, branding, and UI for early-stage startups and YC-backed clients, translating complex concepts into compelling experiences. She founded Curious Fictions, a YC-backed publishing platform for professional authors, exemplifying her ability to conceive, scale, and commercialize new products. Her career also includes design leadership at ZURB and hands-on frontend work at Airbnb, giving her a rare blend of strategic vision and execution across web, mobile, and marketing sites. An alumnus of Stanford with MS and BS in Symbolic Systems and an Executive MBA from Quantic, she marries analytical rigor with entrepreneurial drive to deliver user-centered, scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology
M.S. Symbolic Systems, M.S. Symbolic Systems at Stanford University