Jeff Taylor-chang
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Taylor-chang is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon with 11 years of programming experience, currently optimizing Kiva-driven fulfillment across nearly 200 global robotics centers. He combines large-scale backend systems design with front-end product instincts honed as a co-founder of a nonprofit real-time collaborative Jupyter editor and lead of an IoT research team at UIUC. A University of Illinois CS graduate and multi-time HackIllinois medalist, he has repeatedly shipped production services that handle hundreds of thousands of daily requests and earned the Amazon Fulfillment Tech Master of Delivery award. His background spans serverless AWS deployments, React/React Native frontends, and full CI/CD pipelines—skills applied both in industry and volunteer education roles. Notably, he built tooling used in courses with 100+ graduate students and delivered a staffing-recommendation service that reduced operational risk in warehouses. He brings a blend of robotics-aware optimization, product-focused engineering, and a history of leading cross-functional developer teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nashoba Regional
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Github Skills (26)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
editor10
jupyter-kernels10
codeql8
android8
github-advanced-security7
ios7
semmle-ql7
mobile6
security6
web-application5
expressjs5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jtaylorchang/jtaylorchang
Aug 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
actually-colab/desktop
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Main web application for @actually-colab, a real time collaborative Jupyter Kernel based editor built by @jtaylorchang and @baileytincher at the University of @Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 760 commits in 4 months
jupyter-kernels
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