Geoffrey Taylor
Web Developer Consultant at Mend Together x Cancer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Taylor is a Web Developer Consultant with nine years of full-stack experience spanning LAMP and MERN stacks, specializing in e-commerce and developer operations. He builds production-grade React, Next.js, WordPress and WooCommerce integrations and prefers test-driven workflows and organized development processes. Geoffrey is the creator/maintainer of WPGraphQL WooCommerce and has made notable back-end contributions to the WPGraphQL ecosystem, implementing cart mutations, comment handling, and ACF support. He consults through his firm AxisTaylor and serves as Lead Engineer for Mend Together x Cancer, applying his open-source mindset to mission-driven projects. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines hands-on engineering with continuous improvement of tooling and developer experience. His habit of contributing focused, well-tested GraphQL features reflects a pragmatic approach to solving complex integration challenges.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Business & Finance, Business & Finance at Red Rock Job Corps Summer 2010Computer Science of Associates Computer Programming, Computer Science of Associates Computer Programming at Pittsburgh Technical CollegeAssociate's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Associate's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Community College of Allegheny County
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
graphql-api10
test-driven-design10
back-end-development10
testing10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
object-oriented-programming10
wpgraphql10
php10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
wordpress-plugin9
rest-api8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wp-graphql/wp-graphql-woocommerce
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Add WooCommerce support and functionality to your WPGraphQL server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 releases, 119 reviews, 1010 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Geoffrey primarily implemented and tested a series of features related to handling WooCommerce cart mutations, including adding, removing, and restoring items, applying and removing coupons, and setting shipping methods. The contributions involved creating and integrating new GraphQL mutations and output fields, including handling related errors. Code changes also focused on refactoring to work with new versions of WPGraphQL and integrating new hooks.
apiwordpresswoocommercewp-graphqlwpgraphql
wp-graphql/wp-graphql
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
:rocket: GraphQL API for WordPress
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 69 commits, 61 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Geoffrey primarily focused on developing and testing comment-related mutations within the GraphQL API for WordPress. Their contributions include creating and partially testing comment mutations, and modifying input fields for the `UpdateComment` mutation. They also made changes to the `CommentAuthorType.php` file, and to test files, adding wordpress spacing.
gatsbyapigraphql-apiwordpresswp-graphql
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