Tanay Mandar Thakkar

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VP of Engineering, Canopy Data - React · PostgreSQL · Node.js

Canopy Data
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Roorkee
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

Currently at Canopy Data, where I lead growth engineering with a team of 50. Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and Adobe. Board member at a local non-profit.

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ReactNode.jsPostgreSQLMVVM
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growth engineering, PostgreSQL, MVVM
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22 years of growth engineering. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Mumbai, India · remote OKnode.jsreactpostgresql
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Canopy Data · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 23% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 30 a week to 1.
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
    Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
    Adobe · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
    Uber · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 577ms to 63ms.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2014 - Oct 2018
    Hindustan Unilever · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Grew the growth team from 5 to 29 engineers.

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Education

  1. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Information Technology
    2000 - 2004

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