Alexander Taylor
Senior Software Designer at Self-Employed
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Taylor is a Senior Software Designer based in Burlington, Ontario with 12 years of experience specializing in systems integration and Manufacturing IT. He blends software engineering with human-computer interaction, UX, internationalization, and typography to build systems that handle complex text and language encoding needs. After early roles in enterprise storage and system administration, he spent nearly a decade in Japan teaching and completing postgraduate studies at Keio University, giving him practical cross-cultural and language expertise that informs his localization work. A long-running independent consultant as well as a core contributor at Grantek, he brings both client-facing consulting experience and hands-on design for industrial systems. Colleagues rely on him for bridging low-level encoding challenges with intuitive user experiences in production environments.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in International Languages, Certificate in International Languages at University of Toronto School of Continuing StudiesBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at University of GuelphMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Keio University
English, Japanese, French, German
Github Skills (32)
clock8
styler8
opentype-fonts8
freetype7
unicode7
input-method7
timezone7
modification6
templeos6
opentype6
text-editor6
filter5
tablet5
parsing5
latex5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
altsan/os2-wnnim
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Input Method Editor for Presentation Manager using FreeWnn
Contributions:3 releases, 122 commits, 109 pushes in 10 months
input-methodeditormethodpresentation
altsan/os2-gpi-font-tools
Apr 2016 - Jul 2023
Tools and code samples for parsing/managing various OS/2-GPI font formats.
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
chinese-simplifiedfontparsingufoopentype-fonts
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