Primary Job Title Owner Primary Organization TanStack
Location Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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Tanner Linsley is the founder of TanStack, creator of popular open-source libraries including React Query, TanStack Router, TanStack Table, and TanStack Start. A longtime front-end and full-stack engineer, he is known for building deeply type-safe, high-performance tools that shape how modern web applications are built.
Tanner has grown TanStack
into a self-sustaining, million-dollar open-source business, supported by partnerships with leading developer-focused companies. His projects are used by millions of developers worldwide and power production systems across startups and global enterprises.
Before TanStack, Tanner co-founded Nozzle, an enterprise SEO rank-tracking platform, where he helped design and scale its core data, UI, and analytics systems.
He regularly speaks at major industry conferences and is recognized for his practical, community-driven approach to developer tooling. Tanner is based in Utah with his wife and three children.
