Catherine Tan
Engineering Manager at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCatherine Tan is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience leading product-focused engineering teams at consumer platforms such as Discord and Airbnb. She progressed from front-end and web development roles into senior engineering and management, bringing practical expertise in UI frameworks, real-time engagement features, and scaling user-facing systems. At Discord she has advanced through individual contributor to senior manager roles, indicating strong execution and people leadership during rapid product growth. Catherine’s background includes building social and game-oriented web experiences early in her career, which gives her a user-centric approach to technical decision-making. Colleagues describe her as a hands-on leader who balances shipping high-quality code with mentoring teams and improving developer workflows. She holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University and blends startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computing Science, B.Sc, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (11)
discord-bot10
discord10
react9
declarative9
javascript9
frontend9
api9
user-interface9
api-documentation9
typescript8
documentation7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
catherinettt/catherine-tan-com
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
catherinettt/catherinettt.github.com
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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