Buford Taylor
Founder at Closing Credits
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBuford Taylor is a founder and hands-on engineering leader with 13 years of experience building consumer-facing products and marketplaces used by creators and event audiences. He was an early engineer at Eventbrite, helped build Reforge from the ground up as founding engineer and Head of Engineering, and has launched multiple startups including Casting Call Club and Closing Credits. Comfortable coding across stacks (Rails, React, mobile, AWS) he moves between shipping product and scaling teams—hiring, instituting engineering practices, and driving 3x growth in users and revenue at 17hats. He blends relentless product focus with operational rigor from startup pitches to production launches, and still spends time in the codebase despite running companies. Based in New York, he combines a founder’s appetite for impact with a track record of turning early-stage ideas into deployed, revenue-generating platforms.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Small Business Education Startup Applied Growth Course, Small Business Education Startup Applied Growth Course at TechstarsGrowth Series, Growth Series at ReforgeBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Central Oklahoma
English, Spanish, Bulgarian
Github Skills (153)
printing9
ascii9
hanami8
minifier8
sitemap-xml8
rack8
multiple-languages8
react8
plugin8
css8
draft-js8
sitemap7
ruby7
bash7
stimulusjs7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bufordtaylor/python-texttable
Oct 2012 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 6 months
pythonprintingascii
bufordtaylor/swiftcommandline
Sep 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 1 month
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