Conrad Taylor
Software Consultant at Conrad Taylor
United States
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Top SchoolConrad Taylor is a software consultant with 13 years of experience building scalable web applications and distributed systems using Ruby and Elixir, and frameworks like Rails and Phoenix. He has a strong track record delivering end-to-end features—from real-time recommendation and chat microservices to GraphQL layers and LiveView migrations—often modernizing legacy stacks and cloud deployments. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, Cassandra/Scylla, Neo4j) and infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP), he combines backend performance tuning with pragmatic frontend work and iOS prototypes. Conrad mentors engineers and students regularly, translating complex concepts into testable, maintainable code and improving teams’ delivery practices. He’s equally at home refactoring aging Rails apps as he is shipping Elixir LiveView replacements, hinting at a preference for practical, incremental modernization. A math and CS graduate from the University of Illinois, he pairs analytical rigor with a hands-on, systems-oriented approach.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois System
English, German, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
dynamic-forms10
command-line-interface10
proxy10
exporter10
scheduling10
visual-studio10
influxdb10
k8s10
mesos10
glusterfs10
graphql-api10
compose10
pickerview10
elk10
trigger10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
conradwt/flix-ruby
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
The purpose of this project is to implement an application where fans can comment on and rate movies.
Contributions:136 commits, 666 PRs, 381 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ruby-on-railsreactmoviesrailsjavascript
conradwt/rails-setup-guide-for-macos
Dec 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:93 commits, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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