David Taylor
Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Taylor is a pragmatic data engineer and longtime Pythonist with 12 years of professional experience and 16 years of self-taught programming, currently building data platforms at WarnerMedia. He specializes in turning data science prototypes into production-grade, maintainable pipelines and APIs, with deep hands-on expertise in Airflow, AWS, PostgreSQL, Dataiku, and the PyData stack. A stickler for reducing technical debt and enforcing best practices, he has led company-wide Python training and migrated analytics teams from R/SAS into reproducible, tested workflows. He pairs strong troubleshooting instincts and persistent work ethic with effective mentorship and public speaking, and his background in journalism and even opera gives him an uncommon ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Technology, Associate's degree, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Technology at Dawson CollegeBachelor of Music, Honours in Composition, Bachelor of Music, Honours in Composition at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (123)
menu10
senate10
textual9
notebook9
manim9
immunology9
scraper9
video-editing9
jupyter-notebook9
tricks9
hex8
animation8
python8
network-graph8
jupyterlab8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Prooffreader/intro_machine_learning
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Prooffreader/Misc_ipynb
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 5 pushes in 7 months
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