Frank Tan
Manager, US EMEA Partner Product Management at Branch
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Tan is a product and solutions leader with 10 years of experience bridging technical engineering and partner-facing product management across US and EMEA markets. Currently managing Partner Product Management at Branch, he progressed through solutions and partner roles, translating complex integration needs into scalable product experiences. Frank pairs hands-on engineering roots—iOS app development and open-source TypeScript contributions to the widely used downshift-js/downshift autocomplete library—with strategic partnership execution. His background in robotics and bioengineering from Penn and early research work gives him a systems-oriented approach to designing developer-friendly APIs and SDKs. He’s comfortable guiding cross-functional teams through technical tradeoffs while improving developer experience and regional GTM for platform partnerships. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves fluidly between code, product, and partner strategy.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering Robotics, Master of Science in Engineering Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (22)
autocomplete10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
wai-aria9
sublime-text9
javascript9
redux9
ecmascript9
dropdown9
combobox9
state-management8
accessibility8
autosuggest7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
downshift-js/downshift
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
🏎 A set of primitives to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant React autocomplete, combobox or select dropdown components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 3 branches in 4 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to improving the TypeScript typings and the overall developer experience of the `downshift-js/downshift` repository. Their work focused on updating types, removing unnecessary props, making properties optional, and correcting function names. They also addressed build issues by fixing TypeScript imports and adding a `type` property to the `StateChangeOptions`. Additionally, the user made improvements to the `pickState` function, enhancing its user-friendliness.
wai-ariadropdownprimitivesautocompletereact-modal
tansongyang/js-prototype-chain-viewer
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:88 commits, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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