Carl Taylor is a seasoned full stack engineer in Seattle with 14 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, databases, and performance-sensitive internet applications across startups and FAANG. He has a track record of simplifying complex workflows—designing video lifecycle engines, storage APIs, and self-healing catalog systems that saved petabytes of storage and cut long-term costs—while also bootstrapping products and companies. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and technical lead, he routinely reduces implementation complexity through custom tooling, transpilers, and composable frontend/backends that accelerate delivery. Equally at home debugging live production incidents as architecting new platforms, he blends deep systems thinking with pragmatic UI and API simplification to empower teammates and customers. Notably, his work spans codec and encoding pipelines to browser and mobile integrations, reflecting unusual breadth from low-level storage optimizations to developer-facing productivity tools.
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