Christopher Taylor
Principal Engineer at SoundCloud
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChristopher Taylor is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building reliable, large-scale backend and infrastructure systems, primarily at SoundCloud. He combines hands-on systems design—improving search, microservice reliability, and authentication—with leadership in cloud migration (GCP/AWS), observability, and SRE practices. Christopher has a strong track record of shipping pragmatic platform improvements, from adopting Protobuf/RPC to consolidating stacks so cross-cutting changes deploy in days rather than months. He has led authentication and anti-abuse teams, integrating modern identity flows like Sign in with Apple and novel Google-credential bridges for on-prem Kubernetes. Known as a thoughtful mentor and consultant to engineering leadership, he also brings research-rooted expertise in identity and privacy from his early Fraunhofer work. Practical, security-minded, and deeply experienced in operationalizing distributed systems, he excels at turning complex reliability problems into repeatable engineering practices.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
google-cloud-platform10
opensearch10
libgit210
windows10
interpreter10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
vim10
notification-center10
spacemacs10
elasticsearch10
monitoring10
hacklang10
linux10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ccmtaylor/alertmanager
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
Prometheus Alertmanager
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
prometheus-exporterprometheus-alertmanagerprometheusmetricsmonitoring
ccmtaylor/twinagle
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Twinagle = Twirp + Finagle
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 1 month
rustfinagletwirp
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