Summary
Taiki Tanaka is an application developer with six years of hands-on experience building secure, cloud-native services and modernizing legacy systems. He has delivered production-ready features at Smartsheet and Laserfiche, from AWS-backed Node.js microservices and DynamoDB scaling to .NET-based identity and SAML improvements that tightened security and auditability. Taiki is comfortable across the stack—APIs, message consumers, databases, CI/CD and observability—and has a track record of diagnosing outages and improving performance under real traffic. He combines industry experience with ongoing CS studies, bringing both practical engineering discipline and a learner’s mindset as a sophomore pursuing a bachelor’s in computer science. Notably, he has bridged monolith-to-microservice migrations and enabled incremental frontend modernization, showing attention to long-term maintainability as well as immediate product needs. Based in the United States, he’s focused on app development and software engineering with an emphasis on secure, scalable delivery.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at El Camino College
University of California, Irvine
English