about
Tanay Vardhan

Hi, I'm Tanay.

I'm a product-focused software engineer based in San Francisco, currently at Shepherd, where I work on core infrastructure to automate and scale underwriting workflows for commercial insurance.

Previously, I was at PayPal building and maintaining products in PayPal's Buy Now, Pay Later portfolio, and before that, I founded Turkbox, a platform exploring alternative ways to pay for journalism using data-labeling workflows for machine learning systems, which received a grant from the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge.

I'm from New Delhi and studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

work

Shepherd

Software Engineer

Mar 2026 — Present · San Francisco, CA

PayPal

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2025 — Mar 2026 · San Jose, CA

Software Engineer II

Apr 2023 — Mar 2025 · Toronto, ON

Software Engineer II

Jul 2021 — Apr 2023 · Washington, DC

Software Engineer

Jun 2020 — Jul 2021 · Timonium, MD

Turkbox

Founder

May 2019 — Jun 2020 · Delhi, IN