David Taylor
Senior Software Engineer at Skydio
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building platform and infrastructure systems for companies from ArcSight to Course Hero and Skydio, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in backend services and tooling using Go, PHP, Java, MySQL, Redis, Kubernetes, and AWS, and has a strong track record of owning end-to-end features that improve compliance, support workflows, and incident response. At Course Hero he led integrations with OneTrust and Zendesk, architected a bulk document viewer for copyright review, and created microservices to automate privacy-report generation for GDPR/CCPA. Comfortable in on-call rotations and postmortems, he combines hands-on coding with systems thinking to reduce legacy debt and improve reliability. He publishes code on GitHub (github.com/dmtaylor) and brings a platform-minded approach informed by early-career work on appliance and AMI publishing for cloud marketplaces.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (14)
scrape7
fat5
scraper5
partition5
ntfs4
compatibility4
pdf4
partitioning3
vfs3
nfs3
backup3
rest-api1
rust1
api1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dmtaylor/wikisource-scraper
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Scrape documents from wikisource and convert to pdf
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
scraperwikisourcepdfscrape
dmtaylor/freetote
Apr 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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