Virginia Tam
Engineering Manager at Lattice
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVirginia Tam is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling full‑stack teams and product experiences across growth, ads, and platform domains. She has led cross-functional teams at Asana and Yelp to launch high-impact features—like a redesigned navigation that drove $1.5M in recurring revenue and search/engagement experiments that added $2M in six months—while hiring and promoting engineers into senior and staff roles. Comfortable in both backend and frontend contexts, she’s overseen APIs, internationalization, desktop app interfaces, and ad campaign platforms, and has run 24/7 on-call operations. A vocal advocate for women in tech, she’s helped lead ERGs and mentored engineers organization-wide. Based in San Jose, she combines hands-on technical roots from Cisco to Yelp with a people-first management style that values collaboration, measurable outcomes, and the occasional team boba run.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (15)
fusion10
yelp10
yelp-fusion-api10
api10
nodejs9
python6
api-client4
android3
ruby2
node-module1
php1
rest-api1
rails1
faraday1
rest1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/yelp-fusion
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Yelp Fusion API
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apiyelp-fusionyelp-fusion-apifusionnodejs
Yelp/yelp-api
Jun 2014 - Jul 2017
Examples of code using our v2 API
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
api
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