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Vanessa Tan
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VP, Head of Engineering
San Mateo, California, United States
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VP, Head of EngineeringQuoraMar 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)Leading the Engineering function across product, ML, and foundation teams.
We're hiring across Poe and Quora! https://www.careers.quora.com/- Head of Product EngineeringQuoraFeb 2020 - Feb 2025 (5 years 1 month)I led Quora's Product Systems Engineering organization, one of 3 pillars of the Engineering team. Full-stack engineers in this group work on several teams covering: core Quora product, Poe (AI chat), growth, content distribution, moderation, mobile, and monetization.
Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge. Join us: https://www.careers.quora.com - Engineering ManagerQuoraSep 2015 - Feb 2020 (4 years 6 months)Primarily supported Core Product & Quality (2015-17) and Ads/Monetization (2017-20).
- Software EngineerQuoraJul 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year 2 months)Content quality, user moderation, and scaling product architecture.
- Undergraduate Researcher, Cox LabHarvard School of Engineering and Applied SciencesJun 2013 - Jan 2014 (8 months)Computer vision research focusing on 3D reconstruction of neural pathways from 2D images.
- Computation Intern, Institute for Scientific Computing ResearchLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryJun 2012 - Aug 2012 (3 months)
- Research Assistant, Shieber LabHarvard School of Engineering and Applied SciencesFeb 2012 - Jun 2012 (5 months)Natural language processing research on detecting uncertainty in speech.
- Teaching Fellow, Intro to Computer Science IHarvard School of Engineering and Applied SciencesSep 2011 - Dec 2011 (4 months)
- Explore Intern, Server & Tools Business DivisionMicrosoftMay 2011 - Aug 2011 (4 months)
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- Bachelor of Arts (A.B, Computer ScienceHarvard UniversityJan 2010 - Jan 2014 (4 years 1 month)