Summary
Shanan Sussman is an Area Tech Lead based in San Francisco with 11 years of engineering experience and more than five years scaling and mentoring cross-functional teams. Currently leading platform and delivery efforts at Asana, he brings a background of senior and staff engineering roles at Twilio where he influenced architecture and operational practices. Shanan’s career pairs hands-on front-end and infrastructure work—building React/Redux search-driven applications and modernizing Node stacks—with people leadership and process improvements. He also draws on diverse past roles from film distribution and animation to running teams on the mountain, which inform a pragmatic, user-focused approach to product engineering. Colleagues describe him as a technical generalist who moves smoothly between shipping features, shaping architecture, and growing teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Character Animation Workshops, Character Animation Workshops at Animation Collaborative
Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Care Attendant (EMT Ambulance), Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Care Attendant (EMT Ambulance) at Wilderness Medical Institute
Advanced Studies in Character Animation, Advanced Studies in Character Animation at Animation Mentor