Frontend Performance
React/Next.js + TypeScript. Rendering optimization, reconciler-savvy UI, and smooth interactions.
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
AI/LLM Integration
RAG, multimodal image+text search, and inference pipelines from prototype to production.
Real-Time at Scale
LiveGraph-style subscriptions, low-latency updates, and shard-aware backends.
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.