Bryan Taylor
Owner at Poker Geek Software
Allen, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Taylor is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 19 years of experience building cross-platform systems—from low-level C++ libraries to cloud-backed mobile apps. As owner of Poker Geek Software he wrote a C++ equity math engine and a Dart/Flutter front end with Firebase-driven AI camera features, and his career includes senior engineering roles delivering multilingual mobile and web apps and enterprise desktop software. Comfortable across C#, C++, .NET, HTML/JavaScript and cloud services, he has a track record of shipping user-focused enhancements like UI/UX improvements to a popular YNAB browser extension. Based in Allen, Texas, he blends deep algorithmic chops with practical product delivery and a knack for automating workflows (e.g., translation pipelines) that scale internationalization.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at DallasBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (11)
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
javascript10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
ui-design9
html9
css9
emberjs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
toolkit-for-ynab/toolkit-for-ynab
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
A general purpose YNAB enhancing browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Have it your way!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of a browser extension for YNAB. Their contributions involved implementing a "spare change" calculator, updating the display of uncategorized transactions, and adding a bottom notification bar. They also addressed various UI-related issues, such as fixing the running balance update and handling resizing behavior. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the extension's functionality and user-friendliness.
firefoxbrowserynabenhancingchrome
jlubea/arrow
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Apache Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data. It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
memoryhierarchicalarrowmanipulationimplementations
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