Software engineering leader at Tableau (Salesforce), building teams and platforms that help people do more with data.
I’m a hands-on leader with multi-decade experience across distributed systems, enterprise SaaS, mobile/desktop apps, APIs, and developer programs. I care about both outcomes and execution: strong teams, reliable delivery, and useful products.
Director of Software Engineering, Tableau
Leading teams across key Tableau areas including Extensibility, Data Models, and Mobile apps.
Previously at Tableau, I led and expanded Developer Platform engineering after the Salesforce acquisition, supporting the #DataFam ecosystem through Embedding, Dashboard Extensions, Webhooks, and REST API investments.
- Engineering leadership and people development
- Platform and developer productivity
- API and extensibility ecosystems
- AI-assisted software workflows with practical impact
imagelinks— extract links from screenshotss3data— simple persistent object patterns on S3rss-to-csv— practical feed export utilitysitecheck-example— uptime checks with GitHub Actionsvagrant-cassandra— Cassandra/DSE learning environment
I’ve led engineering organizations and product/platform teams at Tableau, DataStax, Citrix, Yahoo!, and Palm, with earlier technical leadership in medical imaging and real-time embedded systems.
Across roles, a common theme has been scaling teams, improving engineering systems, and delivering complex products in distributed environments.
I write about engineering leadership, AI tooling, and building practical things:
- Motivation for Managers: That’s the Job!
- Remote Control: Copilot vs Claude Code
- The Case for “Eventually Consistent” Management
- Why Feature Reviews Matter
More at cantoni.org.
- GitHub: @bcantoni
- Tableau GitHub org: @tableau
- LinkedIn: briancantoni
- Blog: cantoni.org