High-Performance Web Apps
React, Next.js, and TypeScript — UI performance optimization, rendering, and user-centered delivery.
Chris
Tanaka
Senior Software Engineer
Building low-latency, AI-powered products
Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years building scalable, user-centered web applications and full-stack platforms across AI, SaaS, property technology, healthcare, and advertising. Deep expertise in React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and Java, owning end-to-end delivery for 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 that connects strategy, requirements, planning, and execution in a shared intelligence layer updated in real time.
- Designing agentic AI teammates that cut coordination overhead across alignment, planning, handoffs, and status reporting.
- Owning end-to-end delivery in a Next.js and NestJS monorepo, with Auth0, Vanta, and SOC 2 Type II readiness.
Senior Software Engineer @ FoxyAI
Dec 2023 – Sep 2025
- Built Next.js and TypeScript dashboards for property intelligence, including condition scores, damage detection, renovation forecasts, and 360-degree valuations.
- Led the Pages Router to App Router migration, improving routing, data fetching, and responsiveness.
- Integrated multimodal RAG search across property datasets and shipped Stripe Checkout plus a customer portal for subscription billing.
Core Skills
Frontend Development
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsTailwind CSSReduxReact Query
Backend and Data
Node.jsNestJSGraphQLPostgreSQLKafkaPython
AI and LLM Systems
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 ownership from data to UI, with a focus on reliability, security, and developer velocity.
Let's build something great
Open to Senior/Staff Frontend or Full-Stack roles focused on real-time, AI, or complex UI.