Garry Tan's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Garry Tan's prior experience in software engineering includes four years as a Software Engineer Intern at Sun Microsystems, three years as a Program Manager at Microsoft, and two years as a Software Engineer at Initialized Capital. Tan has also worked as an AdWords manager and a product marketing manager.

🎓 Education

- MS, computer science from Rice University in 2006 - PhD, Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2012geography, economics, and political scienceGarry Tan has a B.S. from Stanford University in 1999 and a M.S. from Rice University in 2006. He then received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2012.His current research focuses on computer science and its application in geography, economics, and political science.Gary Tan has been lecturer or professor at several universities, including Stanford University, Rice University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Toronto.He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Warwick in England and the University of Utah in Utah.In his spare time, GarryTan enjoys hiking and playing the violin.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Garry Tan is a software engineer with over five years of experience in programming, design, and marketing. He has worked in the software industry for 4 years, managing partner at Initialized Capital, and led engineering teams for companies such as Sun Microsystems, Caterpillar, Microsoft, and Paleoclimate. Tan has installed and maintained software in the past, having done everything from product definition, interaction design, visual design, and software engineering. He has been a CTO at Posthaven for 2 years, cofounder of Palantir Technologies, and a lead engineer at Heap, Bison Trails, Clipboard Health, PlateIQ, and others. He is also a part-time designer and developer, working on easy, simple blogs for $5/mo.