John Taylor
Retired at Self-employed
Redwood City, California, United States
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John Taylor is a retired technology and partnerships executive with 13 years of hands-on experience integrating product marketing, software engineering, and strategic alliances to drive measurable revenue growth. He led high-impact carrier partnerships at RingCentral and Microsoft, delivering outcomes such as 47% CAGR channel growth and deploying Bing mobile search to 69M subscribers through operator deals. Technically fluent, he has contributed to major open-source projects (Microsoft Recognizers, Bot Framework, NuGet) with backend and resolver work that improved parsing, dependency resolution, and bot samples. Known for navigating C-suite relationships and complex compliance requirements (HIPAA, FINRA), he combines executive negotiation skills with a developer’s attention to code quality and analytics. Based in Redwood City, he now advises or seeks roles that leverage his rare mix of go-to-market leadership and deep engineering contribution. An underappreciated strength: he routinely moves between product strategy and low-level implementation, from deal terms to TIMEX parsers.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Chemistry, Bachelor of Science Chemistry at San Francisco State UniversityCertificate Management Excellence Organizational Leadership, Certificate Management Excellence Organizational Leadership at Microsoft Management Excellence
Github Skills (46)
algorithm10
unit-testing10
nuget10
algorithms10
datetime10
javascript10
datetime-parsing10
datatypes10
python10
package-management10
net10
date-parsing10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
bots10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
Welcome to the Bot Framework samples repository. Here you will find task-focused samples in C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python to help you get started with the Bot Framework SDK!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 290 commits, 322 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the Simple Prompt Bot, MultiTurn Prompts Bot, Custom Dialogs project, and the Teams Messaging Extensions project within the Bot Framework samples repository. The commits demonstrate the creation and modification of C# code files, including `Startup.cs`, `Program.cs`, and `.csproj` files. The user implemented features related to prompts, multi-turn scenarios, custom dialogs, and messaging extensions in Teams, indicating a focus on bot development and conversational flows.
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microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Jan 2018 - Nov 2021
Welcome to the Bot Framework SDK for .NET repository, which is the home for the libraries and packages that enable developers to build sophisticated bot applications using .NET.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:255 reviews, 760 commits, 418 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:John's commits focused on refactoring code within the .NET Bot Framework SDK for improved clarity, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards. They made changes to multiple files, adding and sorting copyright notices, removing unnecessary "using" statements and simplifying code, indicating a focus on code quality and potentially a role in maintaining or improving the project's codebase. This suggests a back-end focus, where code quality is essential.
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