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
5
Major Companies
100%
Client Satisfaction
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).
- Integrated multimodal LLM-powered search via RAG across large-scale property datasets.
- Implemented Stripe billing system (Checkout + customer portal) and led Page Router → App Router migration.
Core Skills
Frontend & Rendering
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsCanvasWebGLWASM
Backend & Realtime
Node.jsNestJSPythonGraphQL/RESTWebSocketsKafka
AI & LLM
RAGOpenAILangChainPineconeMultimodal
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.