Summary
Bianca Tamayo is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience designing and operating production-grade infrastructure, automation, and platform tooling. She has driven containerization, CI/CD, and secure deployment practices at companies including Cruise, Tesla, and Wickr, blending deep systems and DevOps expertise with a product-oriented mindset. Comfortable leading architecture and cross-functional initiatives, Bianca has moved teams toward self-service platforms, Kubernetes orchestration, and secrets management while keeping developer experience and reliability front of mind. She’s curious by nature—an engineer who learns by tinkering, breaking, and teaching—and gravitates to problems at the intersection of OSS, infosec, biotech, and systems. Outside of core engineering, she’s active in mentoring and enjoys making meaningful connections across teams, reflecting her belief that the best way to learn is to teach.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Tagalog, English