Angela Tan
Director, Engineering Cloud Platform Operations
Sherwood, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAngela Tan is a Director of Engineering who combines an electronics-first background with two decades of experience building embedded systems, IoT products, and cloud platform operations. She currently leads cloud infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, Infosec, and FinOps at SmartThings, driving cost-effective vendor ecosystems and scalable platform improvements. Previously she led OSS telemetry teams at New Relic, modernizing .NET and growing Ruby community engagement for APM instrumentation. Her career spans product launches with global contract manufacturers and co-development with strategic partners across Asia, bringing rare cross-discipline fluency between hardware, firmware, and distributed software. A Six Sigma Black Belt with formal systems engineering training from RPI, she applies design thinking and Lean/Agile practices to unblock teams and translate strategy into measurable execution. Colleagues describe her as a hands-on problem solver who still draws on hardware troubleshooting instincts to inform cloud and software decisions.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at University of South AlabamaMasters of Engineering Computer and Systems Engineering, Masters of Engineering Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chinese, Malay, English
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Github Skills (74)
ruby10
dotnet10
apm-agent10
net10
agent10
backlog10
asciidoc10
newrelic10
documentation9
telemetry9
monitoring8
opentelemetry8
libgit28
opentelemetry-collector7
inspect7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
angelatan2/GHA_sandbox
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 30 comments in 10 months
newrelic/newrelic-telemetry-sdk-ruby
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
New Relic Telemetry SDK for Ruby
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
newrelicrubytelemetry
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