Brian Cantoni
Director Of Software Engineering at Tableau
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrian Cantoni is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of experience and 14 years in senior leadership roles, currently directing Marketplace and Developer Platform teams at Tableau (Salesforce) from San Jose. He specializes in building extensible enterprise SaaS, APIs, developer programs, and cross-platform apps, with a track record of leading distributed teams to deliver complex engineering outcomes. Brian combines hands-on quality focus—evident from contributions improving test coverage for the widely used tableau/server-client-python library—with strategic product leadership. His background spans high-growth and large-scale environments (DataStax, Citrix, Yahoo!, Palm), giving him deep expertise in developer ecosystems and platform extensibility. Colleagues describe him as results-oriented and pragmatic, able to translate developer needs into scalable platform capabilities while still diving into code and tests when it matters.
14 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
rest-api9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tableau/server-client-python
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
A Python library for the Tableau Server REST API
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 91 reviews, 81 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian focused on improving the test suite for the Tableau Server Client Python library. They renamed a duplicate test method to ensure all tests run correctly and cleaned up test comments and descriptions for clarity. Further contributions included adding a test for getting a view by ID and addressing an issue with the order of attributes in an XML request body for Python 3.8, indicating a focus on test coverage and code quality.
python-libraryapipythonrest-serverrest
bcantoni/s3data
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Simple persistent object storage for AWS S3
Contributions:14 PRs, 27 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 4 months
openstack-swiftpersistentaws-s3storageaws
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