Hi, I'm Tanish Manku, a Senior Web and Graphics Engineer based in Vancouver, passionate about building fast, interactive frontends and immersive visuals. I love turning complex engineering challenges into smooth user experiences using React, TypeScript, Zustand, and Three.js, and I enjoy crafting scalable frontend architectures with Nx and modern tooling. Beyond code, I explore generative art with Python, GLSL, and TouchDesigner, and enjoy collaborating across disciplines to ship polished products with compelling visuals and interactions.

Tanish Manku

Hi, I'm Tanish Manku, a Senior Web and Graphics Engineer based in Vancouver, passionate about building fast, interactive frontends and immersive visuals. I love turning complex engineering challenges into smooth user experiences using React, TypeScript, Zustand, and Three.js, and I enjoy crafting scalable frontend architectures with Nx and modern tooling. Beyond code, I explore generative art with Python, GLSL, and TouchDesigner, and enjoy collaborating across disciplines to ship polished products with compelling visuals and interactions.

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Hi, I’m Tanish Manku, a Senior Web and Graphics Engineer based in Vancouver, passionate about building fast, interactive frontends and immersive visuals. I love turning complex engineering challenges into smooth user experiences using React, TypeScript, Zustand, and Three.js, and I enjoy crafting scalable frontend architectures with Nx and modern tooling.

Beyond code, I explore generative art with Python, GLSL, and TouchDesigner, and enjoy collaborating across disciplines to ship polished products with compelling visuals and interactions.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Senior Web and Graphics Engineer at Artcraft
December 1, 2024 - Present
Senior Web and Graphics Engineer. Shipped a React + TypeScript + Zustand app with interactive UI, complex networking and real-time 3D rendering. Optimized Zustand update patterns and Three.js render loop to push real-time performance from 17 FPS to 60 FPS. Modularized frontend into 20+ Nx libraries for faster builds, 48% smaller build size, and 30% quicker load times.
Creative Developer and Artist at Lightshade Creative
March 1, 2025 - Present
Directed visual artwork using Python scripts and GPU texture operations with GLSL for real-time 3D renders. Ported various algorithms like Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and Row Error Diffusion Dithering to TouchDesigner.
Software Developer at Design2Web
September 1, 2022 - May 1, 2024
Project lead for ‘Rescue Dialer’, an app to trigger fake calls with pre-recorded audio to bail from awkward situations. Integrated In-App Purchases alongside a NodeJS backend for efficient licensing, raising app revenue by 50%.
Android App Developer Co-op at TD Bank
May 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022
Refactored monolithic app module into smaller build modules, reducing build and debugging times by 35%. Improved navigation logic by writing a wrapper around the NavController, resulting in a 5% APK size reduction.
iOS App Developer Co-op at NETGEAR
January 1, 2021 - August 1, 2021
Spearheaded project-wide test coverage in XCode, caught and fixed 2 critical bugs, decreased crash rate by 6%. Upgraded user sign-on navigation flow using interactive guides, increasing user sign-on funnel traffic by 10%.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
January 1, 2019 - August 1, 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
January 1, 2019 - August 1, 2024

Qualifications

Google Developer Student Club Core Team Member
January 11, 2030 - February 28, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services