John Tanza
Senior Production Engineer at Shopify
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Tanza is a Senior Production Engineer based in Boston with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale software systems. Currently driving Shopify’s Streaming Platform, he transitioned internally from senior software engineering roles, bringing deep production-focused expertise to high-throughput, real-time infrastructure. Prior to Shopify he spent multiple years at Capital One and Crimson Hexagon, advancing from product analytics into software engineering and developing a strong blend of product-led thinking and systems reliability. He is comfortable bridging engineering and product teams to deliver observable, maintainable systems under real-world constraints. With a BA in Political Science and Public Policy, he combines analytical rigor and stakeholder empathy uncommon among infrastructure engineers. Outside work his public GitHub presence signals disciplined engineering habits and a preference for pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science BA Public Policy Political Science/ Government and Public Policy, BA Political Science BA Public Policy Political Science/ Government and Public Policy at Syracuse University
Spanish, Italian, English
Github Skills (46)
markdown10
parser10
crafting-interpreters10
java10
scripting-language10
h2-database10
bytecode10
interpreter9
jwt9
restful9
grpc9
microservices8
compiler8
high-performance8
rpc8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jtanza/bobolink
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
jtanza/rufus
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Rufus - fetches the paper for you!
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 86 pushes in 7 months
rufusrssdropwizardh2-databasefetches
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.