Nicole Tan
Staff Creative Technologist
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNicole Tan is a multidisciplinary engineer and Staff Creative Technologist at Wayfair Next with a decade of experience prototyping user-centered mixed reality and digital commerce experiences. She blends software engineering, 3D art, and UX to move experimental concepts into production—work that ranges from optimizing photogrammetry pipelines to building AR interfaces for personalized home furnishing. Nicole progressed through multiple engineering roles at Wayfair, bringing research-grade VR/AR tooling and rapid prototyping practices to product teams. Her background includes pipeline tooling at Walt Disney Imagineering and VR research at Cornell, reflecting a knack for bridging creative studios and engineering. Based in Seattle, she combines practical performance optimizations with an eye for spatial design, often reducing complex workflows by orders of magnitude to accelerate iteration.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major: Computer Science Minors: Game Design Film, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major: Computer Science Minors: Game Design Film at Cornell UniversityAdvanced Regents Diploma & THHS Honors Certificate Liberal Arts, Advanced Regents Diploma & THHS Honors Certificate Liberal Arts at Townsend Harris High School
Japanese, Chinese, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
Houka/GameDesign2017fa
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:89 PRs, 241 pushes, 102 branches in 3 months
in-gameanalyticsgame-design
nicole-tan/Cornell-VEL
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:317 commits, 115 pushes in 2 months
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