Tamara Bain
Senior Staff Software Engineer Tech Lead For Crypto at Robinhood
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTamara Bain is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech lead based in Menlo Park with 11 years of experience building highly scalable consumer products and crypto infrastructure. She has repeatedly taken startups from concept to profitability and led industry-first trading initiatives at Robinhood—driving projects like 24H Markets, Fractional Trading, and the $200M Bitstamp acquisition and integration. Equally comfortable shipping frontend polish and backend resilience, she architects full-stack systems, codified cloud infrastructure, and A/B testing frameworks that drive user engagement and product-market fit. As a founder she built fast-growing consumer platforms with exceptional retention metrics and hands-on ownership of DevOps, payments, and growth experiments. Known for reducing major incidents to zero across multi-team orgs, she blends entrepreneurial grit with rigorous operational discipline. Outside of product delivery she advises YC-backed startups through venture partnerships, applying a strong instinct for marketplaces, crypto, and social UX.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Honors Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Honors Computer Science at University of AlbertaY Combinator
English
Github Skills (39)
wns10
push-notifications9
django9
python8
vue8
testing8
django-redis8
react-native7
javascript7
webpack7
web-components7
react7
angular7
html7
frontend7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tamara-bain/extended-django-redis
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Extends standard django redis to have additional redis functionality (like hmaps and atomic counters)
Contributions:32 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
django-redisredis
tamara-bain/vue-amplitude
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
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