Drew Taylor
Senior Software Engineer at Circle
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDrew Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with nine years specializing in blockchain protocols, cryptography, and Web3 development. He has deep hands-on experience in Rust, Go, Solidity, Move and LIGO, and has moved from founding a blockchain game studio to core protocol roles at Archway, Axelar, and now Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol team. Drew has led Rust engineering efforts on an L1 Cosmos SDK chain and built novel ZK proof tooling and hash-chain proving algorithms for competitive blockchain puzzles. His background blends full-stack web and DevOps experience from running an agile web firm with enterprise blockchain integrations to managing security audits and complex dApp projects. Comfortable at both product and protocol layers, he combines cryptographic rigor with practical production experience shipping cross-chain infrastructure. Collected from varied roles, his uncommon mix of academic humanities training and deep technical craft gives him a pragmatic, communicative approach to architecting secure distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.) at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Philosophy at York University
French, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (144)
web-application10
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golang10
predict10
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Github contributions (5)
archway-network/cw721-marketplace
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contracts for a variety of types of cw721 marketplaces
Contributions:5 reviews, 16 PRs, 53 pushes in 10 months
drewstaylor/cheeze-of-insight
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Want to out manoeuvre your CheezeWizards opponents? Predict their turns before they've been forecasted? Sharpen your rind in a free-to-play testnet environment? Grate no further, Cheeze of Insight is for you!
Contributions:306 commits, 255 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
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