Brett Taylor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrett Taylor is an engineering manager in Philadelphia with 16 years of software development experience, currently leading a team at Jellyvision. He blends hands-on backend engineering with people leadership, shipping production systems and mentoring engineers through complex projects. Brett is an active open-source contributor to notable projects like Superalgos, where he added secure API key handling, announcement integrations (Discord, Slack, Twitter), wallet import/export and exchange API enhancements for a popular crypto trading bot. His work demonstrates a practical focus on secure integrations and automation across distributed systems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs technical depth with an eye for developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
nodejs10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
algorithmic-trading10
discord-bot9
javascript9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Superalgos/Superalgos
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Free, open-source crypto trading bot, automated bitcoin / cryptocurrency trading software, algorithmic trading bots. Visually design your crypto trading bot, leveraging an integrated charting system, data-mining, backtesting, paper trading, and multi-server crypto bot deployments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 121 commits, 79 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brett primarily contributed to back-end functionalities related to the crypto trading bot. Their work included adding password configurations for API keys, implementing a Discord webhook bot for announcements, integrating Slack and Twitter bots for announcements. Furthermore, the user modified code relating to exchange API, message formatting and implemented functions for wallet creation and import from mnemonic or private keys and added pair management
pythonbitcoin-trading-botschartingbotdata-mining
ssplatt/slack-zenoss
Feb 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
slackzenoss
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