Engineering Business Leadership
Agi L Tanner
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Software engineer with a decade of business experience.

A full-stack engineer and leader with a track record of self-directed, high-impact work from Fortune 100 to startup. I have deep experience with system design, thriving at the intersection of interesting technical challenges, tradeoffs and business needs. As a leader I am a point of contact for the product org, a thought partner with engineering leadership and keep engineering teams organized and on track from within.

Agi L Tanner
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Years business experience
Lead
Current engineering role
F100→Startup
Range of environments
01 — Technical Skills

AI accelerated across the stack.

Core

Expert in JavaScript & its ecosystem for frontend and backend. Skilled at agentic engineering to execute my architecture decisions.

Agentic Engineering
Codex Claude Agent Orchestration Skills
Frontend
React React Native Vue.js Next.js TypeScript Tailwind HTML/CSS
Backend
Node.js NestJS SQL REST Jest
Ways of working
Product partnership Mentorship Technical leadership
02 — Work Experience

Building and leading

Lead Engineer · Inkitt
2024 — Present
Senior Software Engineer → Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer for the product engineering team on Galatea, CandyJar and Ironblood mobile and web apps. For my individual contributions I deliver high impact projects with thoughtful system architecture, leveraging AI tools such as Claude and Codex to write the code. As a leader I am a technical partner for the product team, support the Chief of Staff to the Engineering VP in process improvements, create tools to enable everyone in the business to make meaningful production code contributions, and mentor team members where needed.

Software Engineer · MikMak
2021 — 2024
Associate Software Engineer → Software Engineer → Software Engineer II

Full stack development spanning consumer shopping experiences and analytics platform. Delivered a UI redesign of the analytics dashboards, including animated charts written entirely in D3.js, and stood up a new API for integrating data directly into BI tools.

Co-founder · SilkRoll
2018 — 2020
Head of Merchandising and Operations

A member of the founding team of this online secondhand fashion company, I managed all merchandising strategy, organic marketing, and operations. I did everything from work hands-on in the warehouse and speak directly to customers to iterate on the technology that enabled operations.

Founder · Active Joy
2017 — 2018

I designed a range of reversible leggings and built a supply chain based in the US that could execute on the vision. I closed a successful crowdfunding campaign and was featured on the cover of Syracuse Woman Magazine.

Buyer · TJX Europe
2014 — 2016

From developing private label women's outerwear to buying brands for men's and women's seasonal activewear, my experience buying for TJX Europe had a particular focus on strategizing for seasonal businesses in changing climate patterns.

Merchandiser · TJX Europe
2011 — 2014
Analyst → Assistant Merchandiser → Merchandiser

Managed short and long-term planning for cornerstone, high-growth departments such as beauty, applying a mix of data analysis, competitive research and trend analysis to drive the business. A direct manager of assistants and analysts who allocated up to one million units to stores per week, I especially enjoyed cultivating new talent.

03 — Featured Projects

Selected work.

CandyJar Mobile Video Player

Rewrote the mobile video player for CandyJar mobile app. The refactor delivers smooth transitions for manual swiping, auto advancing and swapping to horizontal movie mode and includes continuous playback in AirPlay and PiP.

React Native Expo Video Playback AirPlay & PiP
The Harlequin collection, now on Galatea
Partner Content on Galatea

Moved Galatea reader app to a multi-product model. Architected changes to entitlements structure, content gating and integration with payment providers to support multiple standalone subscriptions with individual content access. Leveraged personalized agent orchestration process to execute code while I project managed across 3 engineering teams, QA and product.

Entitlements Payments Agent Orchestration Project Management
MikMak Insights API announcement graphic
MikMak Insights API

In close partnership with my data engineering and product partners, created an API for MikMak's commerce enablement platform that integrates real-time purchase intent and attributable sales data directly into brands' BI tools.

API Design Data Integration Analytics
04 — Testimonials

What people I've worked with say.

“Agi delicately balances data/tech/analytic thinking with human-focused, compassionate thinking. She is a delight to work with — powerful, fun, focused, driven, and empathetic.”

Gavin Farrington
Manager, Product Operations, Cambly

“A talented engineer with an analytical mindset. She researches to ensure the solution is optimal, and implements in a thoughtful, diligent way. Always extremely reliable.”

James Ellis
Senior Data Platform Engineer, Bowery Farming

“Working with Agi is an absolute joy. Beyond being a highly skilled engineer, she is deeply empathetic, collaborative and kind.”

Kate MacDermott
Director of Product, Grow Progress

“Agi has an inspiring and genuine interest in learning and care for others. Her work directly supported others and led to lasting change. She can code, too!”

Alec DuBois
Software Engineer

“A natural at strategic thinking, an incredible communicator, and adaptable. She executes complex problems while keeping a considerate eye on the big picture.”

Stacey Mae Smith
Owner, Lilo Homes and Lilo Life
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05 — Contact

Let's build something together.