Summary
Erik Taylor is a hands-on Director of Cloud Operations with 8+ years of focused experience modernizing full-stack .NET applications and leading Azure architecture, CI/CD, and performance efforts for a high-traffic automotive marketplace. He blends pragmatic engineering—refactoring legacy systems, creating reusable base libraries, and optimizing build pipelines—with front-end modernization work (Svelte, Storybook) and Core Web Vitals/SEO tuning to move products and teams forward. Known for decompiling and reading framework code to “deblackboxify” dependencies, he surfaces deep diagnostic telemetry via Application Insights and Kusto to turn hard bugs into long-term fixes. A collaborative mentor who enjoys lifting the cohort while learning from stronger peers, Erik has a track record of shipping solid, maintainable systems and driving developer productivity improvements across the stack.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Sonoma State University