Abdul Tanner
Instructor at Take Up Code
Hewitt, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdul Tanner is an experienced C++ software engineer and instructor with over 11 years of professional experience and a multi-decade track record building products from low-level systems to desktop sync clients and enterprise management tools. He founded Take Up Code to teach C++ through practical game-driven projects and a podcast that has surpassed half a million listens, turning self-taught learning into published courses and a full book. His career spans engineering and architecture roles at Microsoft, Citrix, Dell/Quest, and Bloomberg where he shipped mission-critical software, designed protocols, and led cross-functional teams. Equally comfortable shipping production code and creating educational content, he combines deep systems-level expertise (protocol buffers, testing frameworks, desktop sync) with hands-on product operations like website and course delivery. Based in Hewitt, Texas, he’s notable for turning self-directed learning into scalable teaching products—an engineer who still builds tools to teach others how to build.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSEET, Electronics, BSEET, Electronics at DeVry University, ChicagoBSEET, Electronics, BSEET, Electronics at DeVry Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
cpp6
blockchain6
staging5
bitcoin4
cryptocurrency4
testing4
bitcoin-core3
doctest3
csharp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
muddledmanaged/Protocol
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:210 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year
takeupcode/TUCUT
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:159 commits, 130 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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