Tanner Nicholson is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Scottsdale, Arizona, with a 15+ year technical career and four years in formal management roles driving full-stack teams. He has led cross-functional engineering organizations building financial SaaS, property services, and energy platforms using React, React Native, Node.js, Python, GraphQL and AWS, and scaled delivery via automated CI/CD pipelines. Tanner has a track record of turning greenfield ideas into production products—authoring design systems, cloud-native services, and AI-accelerated developer tooling that cut time-to-market and improved quality. He introduced OKRs and disciplined planning cadences to better align engineering outcomes with product KPIs and adoption metrics. Comfortable both in hands-on architecture and in managing managers, he blends deep systems and security experience from defense and telecom projects with modern product-focused engineering. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Arizona State University and consistently emphasizes observability, automation, and data-driven decision making.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Arizona State University
High School, High School at Ironwood Ridge High School
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