Brennan Taylor
Software Engineer at Sandvine
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrennan Taylor is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling from Niagara Falls, Ontario. He has a long tenure at Sandvine and a background across government and enterprise projects, delivering J2EE solutions, integrations, and cross-language interfaces early in his career. Brennan contributed notable enhancements to ExpediaGroup's graphql-kotlin library, adding async type unwrapping and improving CI/CD workflows to make GraphQL schema generation and release automation more robust. His research experience includes efficient training of Restricted Boltzmann Machines and visualization of high-dimensional data, reflecting a blend of practical engineering and machine learning curiosity. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he repeatedly turns research insights into production-ready code and build pipelines. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who improves developer experience as much as runtime behavior.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BMath, Computer Science, BMath, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
kotlin10
maven10
graphql10
travis-ci10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
cicd10
schema9
schema-design9
schema-org9
graphql-java8
federation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 1 review, 20 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brennan made significant contributions to the `graphql-kotlin` repository, focusing on extending the core functionality and improving the build and deployment processes. They added support for unwrapping asynchronous types within the GraphQL schema generation process. Additionally, the user updated the CI/CD pipeline, optimizing the Travis CI configuration, and ensuring a smoother release workflow including artifact deployment. Their work directly improved the library's usability and maintainability.
graphql-clientgraphql-javaoss-portal-featuredgraphql-serverfederation
brennantaylor/graphql-kotlin
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Code-only GraphQL schema generation for Kotlin
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 4 months
code-generationgraphql-toolskotlingraphqlgraphql-schema
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