Summary
Branden Tanga is a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with 11+ years building and operating resilient, cloud-native systems across Microsoft, Nordstrom, and financial services firms. He blends hands-on SWE and SRE practice—provisioning, lifecycle management, IAM, and high-availability ecommerce services—with strong OO design, clean code, and SOLID-focused engineering in Java, C#, Kotlin and scripting languages. At Microsoft he ships multi-cloud, multi-tenant virtualization and identity automation for both commercial and regulated federal environments, drawing on deep DevOps experience with Azure, AWS, Chef and PowerShell. He’s scaled production infrastructure dramatically in past roles (tripling nodes and quadrupling compute in one engagement) and mentors junior engineers with measurable impact. Off-hours he’s an “avocado whisperer” and avid trail runner whose practical curiosity (from GT.M/VistA to modern cloud stacks) makes him a versatile problem-solver across legacy and cutting-edge systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Maui Community College
Maui High School
BSCS, Computer Science, BSCS, Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa