Mike Taylor
Senior Staff Engineer at CircleCI
Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Taylor is a Senior Staff Engineer at CircleCI in Bristol Township, PA, combining security stewardship with SRE and release engineering across a 14-year professional span. At CircleCI he serves in senior staff and senior staff security engineer roles after leading SRE teams, focusing on building secure, reliable CI/CD infrastructure. He’s an active open-source contributor across the XMPP and Python ecosystems—making UI refinements to xmpp.org and backend fixes and API updates to projects like python-twitter, parsedatetime (including a pytest migration), and SleekXMPP. A former XMPP Standards Foundation board member, he brings protocol-level insight to practical engineering problems. That blend of hands-on development, operational leadership, and compliance-minded thinking helps him translate complex reliability and security requirements into shipped solutions.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
date-time10
api-doc10
site-design10
datetime10
xmpp10
debug10
oauth210
lib10
datetime-parsing10
python10
jinja210
testing10
date-parsing10
code-library10
twitter-api10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
bear/parsedatetime
Sep 2012 - Nov 2021
Parse human-readable date/time strings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 10 reviews, 232 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on the `parsedatetime` library, contributing to bug fixes and code improvements. Their work included adding tests for specific date scenarios like "last friday" and addressing issues related to unit handling within the date parsing logic. They also updated the setup and documentation, including migrating to Pytest for testing and preparing the code for a release. Additional contributions included fixes for locale-specific parsing, such as those relating to the French and Australian locales.
datetimedate-timereadablestringshuman-readable
bear/python-twitter
Sep 2012 - Dec 2021
A Python wrapper around the Twitter API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 18 reviews, 334 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on improving the Python wrapper around the Twitter API, focusing on enhancing functionality and maintaining compatibility. Their contributions include adding parameters to existing methods, such as `GetUserTimeline`, `PostUpdate`, and `PostRetweet`, reflecting updates to the API and addressing user-reported issues. They also refactored and improved existing methods such as GetFollowers and made adjustments to reflect v1.1 Twitter API changes. Finally they updated the project's dependencies.
apipythonpython-wrappertwitter-api-v2twitter-api
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