Resume

Email: contact@tanneraslan.com
Website: tanneraslan.com (opens in a new tab)
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tanner-aslan (opens in a new tab)
Citizenship: U.S.

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Education

• BA in Computer Science
• GPA: 4.00 / 4.00
• Courses: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Introduction to Computer Systems

• BS in Computer Science
• GPA: 3.96 / 4.00
• Courses: Data Structures & Algorithms, Foundations of Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics, Statistics and Data Analysis

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Work Experience

Software Engineering Intern – FanX Checkout Team

• Launched Accelerated Checkout experiment (persisting user data across sessions) that improved back-to-back conversion rates by 7%, reduced average checkout steps by 14%, and doubled discount code usage, validated via Optimizely, Eppo, and Mixpanel.
• Implemented Redux middleware to reconcile unexpected API response changes during checkout, handling numerous edge cases that previously caused fatal errors and session termination.
• Enhanced error handling & UX polish: improved payment method sorting logic, clarified account linking errors, fixed infinite submission loops, corrected accessibility and mobile UI issues, and moved cart validation to backend to avoid caching issues.
• Reduced technical debt by refactoring legacy components, deprecating outdated feature flags and interfaces, and supporting the migration to a new stateful checkout API built on FastAPI.

Student Volunteer – SIGGRAPH 2025

• Assisted with conference programs and organization, contributing 16 hours of volunteering over 6 days.

Scripting and User Interface Design – Game Development Team

• Co-founded ROBLOX game development studio, amassing 20M+ plays, 15k+ member community, and 2.8k DAU at its peak
• Earned ~$24,000 from a 30% share of profits via a custom in-game store.
• Built an anti-cheat system detecting unnatural player behaviors, reducing cheating reports by ~60%.

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Projects

• Open source collection of typed React components for shipping WebGL shaders with websites.
• Built with Next.js, deployed on Vercel, bootstrapped with Nextra, and documented with MDX.
• Added configurable props for shader components to enable customization without editing source code.

• Streamlined page creation using Nextra + MDX for customizable and user-friendly pages.
• Integrated React components for LaTeX, GLSL shaders, and sheet music.
• Deployed on Vercel with optimized server-side rendering for performance.

• Built a Discord bot to verify University of Michigan students via the MCommunity API and student emails.
• Used an SMTP server to send one-time codes with smtplib.
• Linked Discord user IDs to student emails with PostgreSQL to prevent duplicate accounts.

• Implemented compute shaders for wave displacement, achieving a 600% speedup over CPU methods.
• Added tessellation shaders for efficient rendering of an infinite ocean.
• Developed a voxel-based flotation model for drag and buoyancy calculations.

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Technical Skills

• Languages: C++, C, TypeScript, Python, Lua, Java, GLSL, Slang, Bash, R, LaTeX, SQL
• Libraries: OpenGL, GLFW, GLM, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Redux, JavaFX, FastAPI, smtplib, psycopg2, Jest
• Tools: CMake, Vercel, Git, Jira, Docker, Postman, Proxyman, Figma, Ubuntu, npm, pip, Mixpanel, Eppo, Optimizely, Spreedly, Datadog
• Concepts: OOP, REST API design, Statistics, Parallel Computing, Agile Development, System Design