Conor Taylor
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolConor Taylor is a senior software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-throughput, planet-scale backend systems, currently working on personal data privacy infrastructure at Google in New York. A Trinity College Dublin graduate with First Class Honours in Computer Science, he brings deep C++ and Java expertise honed at Google, Spotify, and Bloomberg. At Spotify he architected and maintained critical, user-facing systems for over 250M active users, including Spotify Connect and multi-platform desktop clients. His background spans both backend and client development, mobile and web integrations, and performance-sensitive finance systems, reflecting a rare blend of low-latency engineering and product-facing feature delivery. Conor has a history of shipping tooling and parsers for complex, real-world data (airline timetables and roster systems), which informs his practical approach to messy production data. He focuses on scalable, reliable architectures with an emphasis on privacy, performance, and cross-platform interoperability.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Mod), Computer Science, First Class Honours, BA (Mod), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Trinity College, Dublin
Irish, English
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Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
taylorconor/frostbite
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:92 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 months
golangfrostbitewebserver
taylorconor/tinytetris
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 7 months
vt100ttyterminal
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