Thomas Taranowski
Manager At Meta at Facebook
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Taranowski is a seasoned engineering manager at Meta with 15+ years building flight, embedded, and consumer hardware-software systems across aerospace and VR. He excels at taking ambiguous projects from zero to vision, assembling and coaching teams to deliver pragmatic, resilient solutions—from SpaceX and Blue Origin flight software to leading Oculus Touch development. Known for empathy and relationship-driven leadership, he prioritizes growth, clarity, and collaborative, non-zero-sum team dynamics. A longtime founder and maker, he runs sustainable off-grid projects and consults on low-level Linux/board bringup and network stacks, reflecting a rare blend of systems depth and hands-on entrepreneurship. Based in Woodinville, WA, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a passion for mentoring engineers into stronger, more effective teams.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of WashingtonPermaculture DesignB.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Illinois State UniversityMandarin Chinese
Chinese
Stackoverflow
1,306reputation
111kreached
7answers
2questions
linux
top-5%
networking
top-1%
Github Skills (25)
networking10
linux9
firmware9
android-ndk6
socket6
deserialization6
client-server6
android6
listener6
udp6
ptrace4
perf4
lustre4
performance-tuning3
kernel3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tsquareX/gymtimer
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
tsquareX/rpg
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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