Nathan Tsai
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Tsai is a software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building core services, payments, risk, and marketplace systems at fast-growing product companies. After progressing from internships to senior and staff roles at Turo, he now works on collaboration features at Figma, blending backend reliability with product-focused UX considerations. He has a strong foundation from UCLA (BS Computer Science) and a track record of shipping production systems across the full stack. Known for tackling payment and risk challenges, he brings pragmatic engineering trade-offs to complex, high-throughput domains. Colleagues rely on him to bridge cross-functional teams and convert ambiguous requirements into robust services. He combines startup agility with enterprise-grade rigor, often surfacing subtle operational issues before they affect users.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
microsoft-teams8
tvos7
css6
javascript6
ios5
mpandroidchart3
react3
multiplayer2
android-application2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nwtsai/nwtsai
Jul 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
nwtsai/portfolio
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:583 commits, 2 PRs, 601 pushes in 3 years 3 months
professionalprofessional-portfoliocssjavascriptcss3
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