Tanaka is the VP of Engineering at Names & Faces. His role is to make everyone in the engineering organisation successful by influencing architectural decisions, establishing best practises, setting work cadences and cultural norms and overcoming the issues that get in the way of the team’s success.

Prior to that he worked at Prodigy Finance and Allan Gray in Engineering Management and Software Engineer roles.

Tanaka is a software engineer at heart with a keen interest in the intersection between technology and leadership.