Engineer | Mentor | Father | Son | Husband | Badminton

Deeply helping people achieve their greatest positive impact by leveraging technology – “None of us need to have the whole solution, we just have the part, together we can make it whole.” – Katherine T.

 

Tony Tam is a first-generation Chinese American who immigrated to San Francisco at 10.  He grew up in the San Francisco public school system, benefited from the ESL program, graduated from Lowell High School, and graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a BA in Computer Science. 

After working as a software engineer for Silicon Graphics for 4 years, Yahoo for 16 years, he helped engineers be more productive and impactful at Splunk. Inc.  He has mentored more than 20 engineers in his career and has found a passion outside of work to capture software engineers’ stories to help others on his website Impactful Engineer.  He and his wife work and live in San Francisco, while his daughter is in Medford, MA.  

Core Values

Driven by “Help Make The Largest Number of People Successful“

Passionate – feeling alive, striving to improve, eyes lit up, influencing others, and unique.

Compassionate – forgiveness, empathy, maintain a good heart, thinking of others, turning the tables, being in other people’s shoes.

Awareness – don’t accept the norm, be self-critical, be aware of what others are doing, be an outsider of my own experience, and look objectively.

Openness – admit fault, apologize when appropriate, reveal my faults, point out things that don’t work well, be open to change for the better, and be aware of my shortcomings.

Living without regrets – asking myself this every day.

What He Does with His Time

• Founder of Impactful Engineer – The mission of ImpactfulEngineer.org is to empower engineers to build a lifelong and impactful career in the software industry.
• Founder of San Francisco Badminton Group – a community of advanced players playing 2 times a week.
• Engineering Productivity @ Splunk – helping software engineers at Splunk be more effective and more productive
• Writing – blog posts https://tonytam.org
• Adviser – The Giving Express – https://thegivingexpress.org
• Owner of I Privé restaurant in Burlingame, CA – learning to run a small business and writing about being a restaurant owner.
• Amateur barista, latte art enthusiast, see my art pours.
• Supports Asian American Creators on Patreon. See who he supports.

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Blog Posts By Topic

Parenting | Running Every Paris Metro Stop | Working @ Yahoo for 16 years | Latte Art | Being An Engineer | Travel To Paris & Beyond | Restaurant Owner | Journey To 2,400 Push Up In 24 Hours | Getting Things Done

See the latest blog posts at https://tonytam.org.

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Professional Software Engineer

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonytamsf

Software engineer at Silicon Graphics from 1995 to 1999

Yahoo! from 1999 to 2016     

Splunk from 2016 to present as Sr. Principal Productivity Engineer

Resume here https://tonytam.org/resume/

Inspired by Atomic Habits

• I am a badminton player – play every Mon, Wed, Sat.
• I am a meditation practitioner – every day at 6:20
• I am a coffee drinker – every day at 6:30
• I am a lifelong learner – every day after meditation.
• I am a reader – every day after meditation.
• I am a thoughtful and engaging father – every communication with Cate.
• I am a loving and supportive husband – whenever I see my wife.
• I am a thoughtful son – whenever I see my parents.
• I am a mentor to young software engineers – when I mentor 8 engineers at Splunk.
• I am a software engineer who helps everyone in my company get work done and remove roadblocks – every day at Splunk.

The postings on this site are my own and do not represent the position or opinions of Splunk Inc. or its affiliates.