Taylor Burgess

Work

First engineering hire, scaling the product from zero to market fit and up:

• Initial SMS-based system built out into a cross-platform mobile app
• Design and implementation of analytics data pipeline
• Full port of platform to an infrastructure-as-code tool
• Design of LLM-assisted content-authoring features in the product
• Internal tools for product and customer support team communication streamlining
• Countless other initiatives

Key Tools: Python3, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake SQL, Django, AWS, Terraform

Worked as an infrastructure team individual contributor on internal projects related to privacy, security, and productivity, including:

• An asynchronous message queue library
• An internal support ticket management system
• Improvements to data obfuscation and security in production containers
• A password-less authentication system
• A full port of all web clients to TypeScript

Key Tools: Python3, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Django, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, CircleCI

Led or contributed to frontend feature projects, including:

• Rewrite of an account management dashboard with modern web tooling and overhauled analytics
• Rewrite of an AI model demo application with performant visualizations and a scalable data store
• A CI/CD system for frontend clients
• A frontend client monorepo with internal package distribution
• A custom CMS with a custom client-side routing system and container-based infrastructure

Key Tools: JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Node.js, React.js, Redux, Webpack, Docker, Kubernetes

Education

12-week educational retreat for programmers from around the world. I pair-programmed extensively with experienced engineers, taught myself the basics of writing software, experimented, explored

B.A. English (Creative Writing); Summa Cum Laude