Andrew Taylor
Senior Director, Platform DevOps & DevEx
Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Taylor is a seasoned software leader and self-taught engineer with 11 years of experience building developer platforms, automation, and CI/CD at scale. Currently Senior Director of Platform DevOps & DevEx in Oregon, he architects cloud-native, container-based platforms and embeds DevSecOps and AI-assisted automation into delivery pipelines. He has a proven track record leading distributed teams to improve developer productivity through tooling, observability, and resilient pipeline design across enterprise environments. An active open-source contributor and CI/CD fanatic, he’s hands-on enough to refactor build systems (e.g., modernizing a WordPress theme rig with PostCSS and modularized builds) while mentoring the next generation of engineers. Known for balancing strategic vision with practical prototypes, he partners across security, infrastructure, and product to turn complex requirements into repeatable, auditable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
wordpress10
gulp10
postcss10
eslint9
sass9
front-end-development9
automation9
automations9
performance-analysis8
performance-monitor8
back-end-development8
php6
adsense6
css6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wprig/wprig
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
A progressive theme development rig for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 101 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew refactored and improved the build process for the WordPress theme development rig. They restructured the gulp build files, modularizing tasks for better maintainability and readability. The user implemented improvements like using PostCSS plugins (including Stylelint for code quality) and migrating to modern JavaScript features. These changes streamlined the theme build process and enhanced the overall development experience.
rigwordpresswordpress-themeprogressiveperformance
pantheon-systems/google-map-gutenberg-block
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:84 commits, 20 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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