Ryan Tanaka
Human Resources at teia.cafe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Tanaka is an HR professional and community builder with a decade of experience shaping artist-led digital communities and metaverse projects from Seattle. As a founding member of Teia DAO and HR lead at teia.cafe, he blends organizational stewardship with deep engagement in NFT art governance and decentralized collaboration. His background in advanced musicology (Ph.D. candidacy) and an MFA in composition informs a creative approach to product and community development, reinforced by a Product Management certificate. Ryan also operates a Decentraland plot under ryangtanaka.eth, planning an arts-and-music venue that demonstrates practical experience marrying virtual real estate, events, and rentals. He brings a rare mix of scholarly rigor, creative practice, and hands-on DAO/Metaverse operational experience to projects at the intersection of art and web3.
10 years of coding experience
Ph.D Candidacy, Historical Musicology, Ph.D Candidacy, Historical Musicology at University of Southern CaliforniaMFA, Music Composition/Performance, MFA, Music Composition/Performance at California Institute of the ArtsProduct Manager Certificate, Product Management, Product Manager Certificate, Product Management at Product SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Composition, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Composition at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Japanese
Github Skills (13)
tezos9
san9
react8
predict8
open-source6
machine-learning4
holochain1
plutus1
move1
blockchain-platform1
music1
blockchain-network1
blockchain1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sfbrigade/datasci-firerisk
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes, 1 comment in 5 months
relativeriskrelative-riskopendatamachine-learning
ryangtanaka-org/teia-ui
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Front-end code for teia
Contributions:31 pushes, 9 branches in 8 months
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