Shawn 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.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Information Systems, BS, Computer Information Systems at DeVry University, Fremont
Starter template for a monorepo for Go microservices using gRPC, Bazel, and Tilt
Contributions:111 commits, 35 PRs, 142 pushes in 6 months
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