Jherez Taylor
Senior Software Engineer at Syndio
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolJherez Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer based in Irvine, CA with 11 years of experience building high-throughput systems and data-driven products. He has driven backend and real-time bidding platforms that handle thousands of requests per second and millions of impressions daily, and now contributes to Syndio’s engineering efforts. His background blends applied data science and NLP research—his master's work on detecting contextual hate speech informed annotation experiments and model design—bringing rigor to ML pipelines in production. As an engineering lead he has re-evaluated tech stacks, redesigned Elasticsearch clusters, and introduced APM and log processing to improve observability and performance. Comfortable across systems, data, and machine learning, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and hiring experience. He often moves between research and production work, turning experimental models into operational features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine CampusBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science at Clarence Fitzroy Bryant CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Information Systems & Applications (Data Science Track), 4.23 / 4.30, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems & Applications (Data Science Track), 4.23 / 4.30 at National Tsing Hua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (96)
nlp9
python9
fairness-ml9
cython9
named-entity-recognition9
language-processing9
spacy9
turkish9
artificial-intelligence9
text-classification9
natural-language-processing9
transformer-architecture9
corenlp8
nlp-machine-learning8
data-sync8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JherezTaylor/agriExpenseTT-App-Engine-Fork
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 1 month
Taxi-Coordinator/agent-simulation
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 103 commits, 35 PRs in 1 month
driversmechanismtaxiauctionmarket
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