Tara D
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTara D is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and payment services, currently contributing to Spotify after earlier backend and senior roles. She has deep C#/.NET expertise and practical experience with CQRS, event sourcing, webhooks, and high-volume payment architectures. Tara pairs hands-on engineering with cross-team collaboration as a CX liaison who resolves escalated production issues and mentors engineers. Her background spans full lifecycle work from enterprise desktop apps (WPF) and REST APIs to modern backend services, reflecting a pragmatic approach to integrating legacy and new systems. She is an active advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion and has served on DEI committees to foster safer workplaces. Based in Waynesboro, VA, she brings a math-driven problem-solving mindset from a degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics with a CS minor.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Applied and Computational Mathematics Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Applied and Computational Mathematics Minor in Computer Science at South Dakota Mines
English
Github Skills (6)
displays7
magicmirror6
stock-price5
stock5
nodejs5
javascript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tdadah/tdadah.github.io
May 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
tdadah/tara_talon
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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