Christopher Tanaka

Christopher
Tanaka

Senior Software Engineer

Building low-latency, AI-powered products

Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years delivering real-time collaboration, high-performance UI, and production ML integrations for customer-facing products.

Open to remote work

Full-Stack Expertise

React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python. From UX to scalable backends.

Performance Focus

Real-time systems, WebGL, and low-latency architectures that scale.

AI Integration

GPT UX, CV, and ML pipelines—from prototyping to production.

Key stats

12+
Years Experience
50+
Projects Delivered
4
Major Companies
100%
Client Satisfaction

Recent Impact

Senior Software Engineer @ FoxyAI

Dec 2023 – Aug 2025

  • Built React/TypeScript dashboards for Visual Property Intelligence (scores, detections, valuations).
  • Launched GPT-powered multimodal search across large property datasets.
  • Optimized Canvas/WebGL pipelines to reduce UI latency and improve fidelity.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer @ Figma

May 2019 – Dec 2023

  • Engineered real-time multiplayer editing (WebSockets, OT/CRDT-inspired, WASM perf).
  • Cut render latency 30%+ via Canvas pipeline and resource usage optimizations.
  • Scaled perf testing to GPU-accelerated CI with robust profiling guardrails.

Core Skills

Frontend & Rendering

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsCanvasWebGLWASM

Backend & Realtime

Node.jsPythonExpressGraphQL/RESTWebSocketsStripe

AI & Visualization

GPT UXComputer VisionTensorFlow integ.D3.jsDashboards

How I work

Product-first delivery

Partner closely with design and PM to ship high-impact features quickly and iterate with real user feedback.

Performance mindset

Profile, measure, and optimize—real-time, low-latency UI and scalable systems are my default.

Ownership & quality

End-to-end responsibility from data to UI; raise the bar on reliability, accessibility, and maintainability.

Let’s build something great

Open to Senior/Staff Frontend or Full-Stack roles focused on real-time, AI, or complex UI.