Tara Favazza
Engineering Manager at Zendesk
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTara Favazza is an engineering manager in Seattle with 10 years of software engineering experience, currently leading Zendesk’s core Support Ticketing team and guiding a six-engineer team to deliver reliable, user-focused features. With a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience and early research experience in clinical labs, she brings a data-driven, experimental mindset to product and platform problems—translating scientific rigor into scalable engineering practices. Her career spans fintech and ecommerce systems at HubSpot and Wayfair, where she led integrations for billing, gift cards, and loyalty programs, blending backend integrations with cross-functional collaboration. Known for enjoying puzzles, she emphasizes code quality, testing, and clear documentation while using OKRs and metrics to drive team performance and continuous improvement. While she describes her coding as "moving strings from one part of the internet to another," she pairs that practical orientation with strategic leadership that improves both product outcomes and team health.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion Web Development Immersive, Certificate of Completion Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBS Behavioral Neuroscience, BS Behavioral Neuroscience at Northeastern University
English, Italian, Sign languages
Github Skills (19)
mongoose6
crud5
foreign5
foreign-keys5
spy4
mongodb4
sql-parser3
javascript3
lodash3
nodejs3
postgresql2
functional-programming2
sql2
css1
solve1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tfavazza/scl-react-manager
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Front end for Spy Party competitive league
Contributions:21 PRs, 76 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 11 months
partyleaguefront-endspycompetitive
tfavazza/game-project-client
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 15 days
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