Andre Marcelo Tanner
About Andre Marcelo Tanner
Andre Marcelo Tanner is a Staff Engineer at Ada, where he has worked since 2022. He has extensive experience in site reliability engineering and technology leadership, having held various roles at companies such as All Hands on Deck Inc., Sylabs Inc., and Examine.com.
Current Role at Ada
Andre Marcelo Tanner serves as a Staff Engineer at Ada, a position he has held since 2022 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In this role, he focuses on managing and improving Kubernetes and AWS Cloud infrastructure, significantly enhancing developer productivity. Tanner leads the Infrastructure Guild at Ada, where he advocates for best practices and advancements in Cloud Native technology. His contributions include building two new clusters from scratch, which are identical to existing production clusters, and implementing autoscaling at both the cluster and application levels.
Previous Experience at Ada
Before his current position, Tanner worked at Ada as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer from 2019 to 2022. During this time, he developed tooling that automated development environments tailored to each code branch, allowing engineers to test code in isolation. His earlier tenure at Ada from 2021 to 2022 also involved significant contributions to the company's infrastructure and reliability practices.
Professional Background
Tanner has a diverse professional background, having held various engineering and technology leadership roles. He served as CTO at All Hands on Deck Inc. from 2017 to 2018 and as a Senior Software Engineering Consultant from 2016 to 2017. His experience also includes a position as a DevOps Engineer at Sylabs Inc. from 2018 to 2019, and as Director of Technology at Examine.com from 2014 to 2017. Additionally, he was VP of Technology at Lewt, Inc. for nine years, from 2006 to 2015.
Education and Qualifications
Tanner completed his high school education at Southville International School, earning a High School Diploma from 1996 to 2000. He furthered his studies at Thames Business School, where he achieved an Advanced Diploma in Information Technology between 2000 and 2004. His coursework included Business Administration, Information Technology, Marketing, and Business Law, providing a solid foundation for his career in technology.