Ashley Taylor
Senior Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Glendale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-friendly APIs for large media organizations, currently leading user management and GraphQL adoption at The Walt Disney Company. They specialize in designing resilient, scalable services—spanning OAuth flows, centralized preference stores, content planning business logic, and ETL pipelines—frequently selected to lead cross-team initiatives due to clear written communication and thorough documentation. Prior roles at Netflix and Disney include launching production tooling for animation workflows and migrating legacy services to modern Java/GraphQL stacks, demonstrating strong product orientation and integration skills. Ashley’s teaching stints at Stanford reinforced a pedagogy-driven approach to knowledge transfer, which shows up in libraries, sample projects, and internal docs they produce to accelerate team onboarding. They also contribute to open-source documentation for data analytics tooling (CDAP), focusing on clear ETL sink guidance for Avro and Parquet formats—an underappreciated but impactful area for data reliability. Based in Glendale, CA, Ashley combines technical depth with a palpable focus on making complex content-production workflows simpler and more enjoyable for end users.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
documentation10
cdap10
parquet9
avro9
javas4
java4
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cdapio/cdap
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
An open source framework for building data analytic applications.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:22 commits, 43 PRs, 140 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashley's commits primarily focus on updating documentation files within the `cdap-docs` directory. They made multiple revisions to the `snapshotavro.rst` and `snapshotparquet.rst` files, suggesting a focus on documenting ETL sink functionalities, specifically related to Avro and Parquet formats. The changes include modifications to descriptions, properties, and general content organization within the documentation files. The user's work aims to improve the clarity and comprehensiveness of the documentation.
integrationpythonanalyticsanalyticjava-8
ataylor4/codeu_project_2017
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:18 PRs, 22 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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