High-Performance Web Apps
React, Next.js, and TypeScript — UI performance optimization, rendering, and user-centric delivery.
Chris
Tanaka
Senior Software Engineer
Building low-latency, AI-powered products
Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years building high-performance, user-centric web applications. Deep expertise in React, Next.js, and TypeScript, with strong backend experience designing real-time, data-intensive and AI-powered systems.
Open to remote work
AI-Powered Systems
RAG, multimodal search, and AI inference pipelines from prototype through production.
Real-Time & Data-Intensive
Backend systems for real-time collaboration, data pipelines, and scalable SaaS platforms.
Key stats
12+
Years Experience
5
Major Companies
Full-Stack
Engineering
AI/LLM
Integration
Recent Impact
Senior Software Engineer @ ProductNow
CurrentOct 2025 – Present
- Building an AI-native OS for product & engineering teams with a shared intelligence layer that stays current in real time.
- Developing agentic “AI teammates” to reduce coordination overhead across planning, handoffs, and delivery.
- Shipping features in a TypeScript monorepo (Next.js/NestJS); driving enterprise readiness with Auth0, Vanta, and SOC 2 Type II.
Senior Software Engineer @ FoxyAI
Dec 2023 – Sep 2025
- Built Next.js/TypeScript dashboards for AI-powered property intelligence (scores, damage detection, valuations).
- Led frontend modernization and performance optimization migrating Page Router to App Router, improving responsiveness and user experience.
- Integrated multimodal LLM-powered RAG search across large-scale property datasets; implemented Stripe billing (Checkout + customer portal).
Core Skills
Frontend Development
React.jsTypeScriptNext.jsTailwindCSSReduxReact Query
Backend & Databases
Node.jsNestJSGraphQLPostgresKafkaLiveGraph
AI & LLM
RAGOpenAILangChainLangGraphFAISS
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.