Nikki Tan
Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNikki Tan is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft with 12 years of engineering experience spanning game development, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure. She combines deep systems programming skills in C/C++, C#/Unity3D and Direct3D with modern DevOps and cloud-native tooling such as AKS, Docker, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins. Her background includes server-side roles at Mercari and Cloudcade and hands-on mobile and graphics work, giving her a rare blend of low-level performance expertise and production-scale backend design. Nikki holds advanced training in applied mathematics and completed Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course, reflecting a strong grounding in algorithmic thinking. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she focuses on helping teams modernize systems for scalability and real-time workloads—leveraging experience from game VMs to WebSocket-driven services. An unexpected strength is her cross-disciplinary foundation in fine arts and sculpture, which informs a pragmatic yet creative approach to technical problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Statement of Accomplishment signed by Prof. Andrew Ng Machine Learning, Statement of Accomplishment signed by Prof. Andrew Ng Machine Learning at CourseraBachelor of Science Game Development, Bachelor of Science Game Development at Full Sail UniversityBachelor of Fine Arts Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Arts Sculpture at Taipei National University of the ArtsHigh School, High School at Taipei First Girls' High SchoolOpen University Mathematics, Open University Mathematics at San Francisco State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Applied Mathematics at California State University - East Bay
Github Skills (12)
sysinternals10
cli10
linux9
dockerfile7
docker-compose7
docker6
vscode6
vscode-extension5
visual-studio-code4
yahoo4
visual-studio4
python3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikkitan/livechat-demo
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
nikkitan/bitcoin
Mar 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
stagingcryptocurrencybitcoin-corebitcoin
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