Josh Taylor
Senior Cloud Engineer at Pearson VUE
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Taylor is a Senior Cloud Engineer and U.S. Navy veteran with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, and on-prem environments. He blends site reliability, infrastructure-as-code, and full-stack development skills—working with Terraform, Kubernetes, .NET, Go, and modern CI/CD—to deliver resilient application delivery and observability. Known for pragmatic automation, he has led SRE and DevOps transformations for healthcare, education, and testing services, and helped modernize legacy backends into cloud-native systems. A lifelong learner with a background in cryptologic operations and Arabic studies, he brings disciplined problem-solving from military service to software reliability challenges. Outside of work he’s active in developer tooling and favors minimalist workflows (neovim) and hobbyist game development (Godot), reflecting a curiosity that fuels practical, cross-domain solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion with Honors, Modern Standard Arabic, Certificate of Completion with Honors, Modern Standard Arabic at Defense Language InstituteBachelor’s Degree, Data Analytics, 3.92, Bachelor’s Degree, Data Analytics, 3.92 at Southern New Hampshire UniversityCertificate, Code 401 - Advanced ASP.NET Core, Certificate, Code 401 - Advanced ASP.NET Core at Code FellowsHigh School, Honors, High School, Honors at Lincoln County High School
English
Github Skills (38)
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estate9
gdextension9
gdnative9
game-development9
python-bindings9
api8
gdscript8
open-source8
godot8
planning7
cpp6
telescope6
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development-tools6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
taylorjoshuaw/data-structures-and-algorithms
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:64 PRs, 52 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year
ProjectAMANDA/AmandaFE
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:94 commits, 56 PRs, 44 pushes in 10 days
reactjavascriptamandafrontendfront-end
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