Russell Tan
Senior Software Engineer at Evite
Burbank, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Tan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and eight years focused on backend systems, currently building at Evite from Burbank, CA. He has a strong track record of modernizing legacy services, introducing observability, and designing event-driven architectures across companies like PayPal, Nordstrom, and Forma. At PayPal he architected multi-region Redis transitions, led services powering coupons and transactions, and enabled rewards-point checkout—demonstrating both systems-level thinking and product impact. Russell is a self-hosting enthusiast who advocates scalable, maintainable infrastructure and has repeatedly reduced operational toil through refactors and automation. He blends full-stack familiarity (from mobile and frontend early roles to Node/GraphQL and .NET backends) with pragmatic leadership in RFCs and cross-team integrations. Not obviously: he brings hands-on ops experience from deploying and scaling ML and backend servers on AWS, giving him rare end-to-end ownership of systems in production.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Transfer Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.3, Transfer Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.3 at Ventura CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3 at California State University-Long Beach
Spanish
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
sveltekit10
python10
photo10
typescript10
google-photos10
nestjs10
backup10
duckdb10
photo-gallery10
postgis10
nodejs10
svelte10
flutter10
facebook4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Original-heapsters/blamegame-api
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
git hook based game
Contributions:78 PRs, 60 pushes, 84 branches in 3 months
reacthookgamegit-hook
CECS343Project/Farm
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:175 commits, 50 PRs, 148 pushes in 3 months
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