Jake Taylor
Senior Software Engineer at Jack Henry
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with 10 years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems and cloud infrastructure. He has a proven track record modernizing legacy systems—once saving a company more than $2M—and architecting decentralized, cryptography-forward communication protocols from research to production. Comfortable leading small Agile teams, he combines hands-on implementation (databases, gRPC, IaC) with mentorship and project ownership, having maintained >99% uptime for services serving 50k+ daily users. His background spans network engineering to DevOps and cryptography, and he has repeatedly built cloud stacks and database architectures from scratch to scale. An early entrepreneur who shipped his first mobile app in ninth grade and is an Eagle Scout, he brings both technical depth and disciplined operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Northeastern University
Github Skills (32)
graph10
terraform10
aws10
terraform-cloud9
dotnet9
hashicorp9
hcl9
declarative9
devops9
infrastructure-as-code9
terraform-module9
terragrunt9
dedicated-server9
infrastructure9
terraform-provider7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xxfoundation/elixxir-registration
Jan 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:600 commits in 4 years 3 months
xxfoundation/elixxir-wrapper
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:154 commits in 1 year 7 months
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