Tapan Vijay is a seasoned engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling high-performance technology teams across global organizations. Currently serving as Senior Engineering Manager at Meta Platform Inc since 2018, he leads a team of approximately 70 engineers across San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and New York City, focused on developing money movement platforms across Meta's Family of Apps. His leadership philosophy centers on building distributed systems that handle large volumes with five 9's reliability, combining technical excellence with strong organizational culture.
Throughout his tenure at Meta, Tapan has spearheaded several transformative initiatives that have delivered significant business impact. He led a comprehensive 4-year effort across 100+ engineers to migrate 45+ Meta payment use cases with hundreds of billion in total payment volume from legacy systems to the Omni Engine, which now serves millions of daily transactions with exceptional reliability. Additionally, he pioneered Meta's cost telemetry project with an ambitious goal to save $1B in transaction costs, delivering hundreds of million in savings to date and identifying pathways to an additional multi-hundred million savings over the next 2-3 years. His strategic approach to money movement optimization has resulted in $100M+ in additional revenue through innovative features including Smart Routing, Smart Retry, Realtime Retries, and Split/Partial Payments. Furthermore, he built a unified third-party integration framework that reduced partner onboarding time by 50% while maintaining privacy and security compliance, serving 30+ partners across Meta.
Prior to joining Meta, Tapan held key leadership positions at prominent technology and financial companies, demonstrating consistent career progression and expanding responsibilities. As Director of Engineering at Zenefits from 2015 to 2018, he led globally distributed teams across San Francisco, Vancouver, and Bangalore, growing the payroll product to serve 10,000+ businesses across all 50 states. His earlier roles include Staff Engineer at PayPal, where he developed merchant checkout workflows for Brazilian markets and led merchant onboarding applications for Canada, and Senior Manager at Morgan Stanley, where he built teams from scratch to develop Pharos, a distributed application for equity swap lifecycle management. He began his career as Senior Member Technical at Deshaw & Co, developing ultra-low latency market data parsers capable of handling 200K messages per second with sub-microsecond processing times.
Tapan holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), one of India's premier engineering institutions. His technical expertise spans distributed systems architecture, high-frequency trading systems, financial technology, and large-scale platform development. With demonstrated ability in managing global teams of 100+ people, he has proven expertise in recruiting, mentoring, and empowering senior managers and engineers to build high-performance teams that deliver exceptional results.