Tanner Nelson

Lead Software Engineer

Tanner Nelson is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in aerospace and web development. Currently serving as Lead Software Engineer at SpaceX since October 2020, Tanner's work focuses on Starship design software, alongside previous roles involving Starship flight software, manufacturing software, and Starlink software solutions. Prior experience includes founding Vapor, where Tanner developed Swift's most popular web framework, and participating in the Swift.org Server Working Group to enhance server compatibility for Swift. Tanner's background also includes roles in iOS development, freelance software projects, and teaching web programming. Tanner holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University, completed in 2016.

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