Shawn Tabai
Engineering Manager at Retool
Campbell, California, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Tabai is an engineering manager based in Campbell, CA with nine years of professional experience building scalable infrastructure and leading teams through large platform transformations. He has deep hands-on expertise in microservices, Go, Kubernetes, gRPC, and CI/CD, and has driven architecture and roadmap decisions at companies from Google to fast-growing startups like Commure, Actual, and now Retool. Known for coaching engineers and spearheading organizational initiatives, he has a track record of improving team practices—running scrum rituals, mentoring, organizing hackathons, and launching ERGs and mentoring programs. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he combines production-grade reliability engineering with a knack for translating broad system details into pragmatic execution. An early starter who began coding professionally as a teenager, he brings both long-term technical depth and a people-first leadership style to complex, high-scale projects.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Information Systems, BS, Computer Information Systems at DeVry University, Fremont
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Github Skills (128)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
stabai/readysetgo
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Starter template for a monorepo for Go microservices using gRPC, Bazel, and Tilt
Contributions:111 commits, 35 PRs, 142 pushes in 6 months
bazelgogrpcmicroservicesmonorepo
stabai/stabai.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jul 2025
Contributions:48 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 1 month
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