Summary
Dev Tanna is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Munich with over a decade of experience building scalable, distributed backend systems and leading high-performing teams at companies like Shopify, Microsoft, and AutoScout24. He combines hands-on technical ownership—having scaled real-time NLP/document similarity systems to thousands of requests per second and improved latencies and annotation accuracy—with product-driven leadership that boosted user retention and merchant coverage. As a patent co-inventor on LLM-based parser creation and a former startup co-founder, he blends deep systems engineering, product delivery, and entrepreneurial instincts. He has led teams through complex roadmaps, live-site reliability, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment at global scale (tens of millions of users). Known for pragmatic performance optimizations and building observability/operational tooling, he consistently turns research and prototypes into production-ready services. Trained at the University of Toronto, he brings both rigorous CS foundations and a track record of shipping impactful features across massive consumer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The Modern High School
Bachelors in Computer Science/Software Engineering (Honors), Computer Science, Bachelors in Computer Science/Software Engineering (Honors), Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, French, Arabic, Hindi