Summary
Tamara Chu is a Design Engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building and leading teams on complex web applications for startups, agencies, and mission-driven organizations. She partners closely with product and design to deliver high-quality, practical solutions under tight timelines, and has led full-stack teams through discovery, launch, and handoff. Her background spans roles from senior frontend engineer to engineering manager and lead, and she currently contributes at Notion while running an interactive studio, Cunning Folk, that creates playful web experiences for artists and non-profits. Comfortable in both legacy stacks and cutting-edge workflows, she brings a pragmatic emphasis on shipping—down to happily writing the tickets in Jira. Tamara’s mix of agency rigor and creative coding training gives her a knack for balancing delightful UX with maintainable engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lick-Wilmerding High School
Creative Code Intensive, Creative Code Intensive at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Amherst College