about
Tanay Vardhan

Hi, I'm Tanay.

I'm a product-focused software engineer at Shepherd, where I work on core infrastructure that powers underwriting systems for commercial insurance. Previously, I spent ~6 years building and maintaining core experiences and infrastructure for PayPal's Buy Now, Pay Later products.

Before that, I built Turkbox, a platform to pay for news by classifying data used to train machine learning models. I'm from New Delhi, India, and studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at 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