Brandon Taylor
Principal Backend Engineer at Epic Games
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Taylor is a Principal Backend Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience designing scalable backend services for social ecosystems and mixed reality platforms. He has progressed from intern to principal roles at Epic Games and Microsoft, shipping backend services for Epic Online Services and Microsoft Mesh/IVAS. Skilled across cloud-native stacks (Azure, Azure Functions, SQL Server, Snowflake, Elastic/Kafka) and .NET ecosystems, he focuses on reliability, performance, and streamlining developer workflows. Brandon pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship and cross-team collaboration, having mentored ACM students and led architectural work on high-throughput logging and indexing pipelines. Notably, his background spans both consumer-facing growth systems and complex real-time platforms, giving him a rare blend of product-minded engineering and infrastructure depth.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (29)
java6
csharp5
openapi5
specification5
rest5
rest-client5
api5
linux-distro5
python5
javascript5
code-generator5
signalr-client4
swagger4
typescript4
golang4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KeeninVye/Soundstack
Jun 2016 - May 2021
Multi-user audio playlist app.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
audio-playeraudiomulti-usermusicplaylist
euranium/49X-DRS-Server
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:24 PRs, 25 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
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