Justin Taylor
Founder & Lead Developer at Hyper Brew
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Taylor is a founder and lead developer who pivoted from a decade in commercial editing and animation to building productivity-focused plugins for Adobe Creative Cloud, running Hyper Brew since 2017. He combines hands-on post-production experience with full-stack development skills (JS, Python, C#, C++) to deliver custom extensions for After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Media Encoder that meaningfully speed creative workflows. Justin has contributed to community tooling—improving TypeScript typings for a broad suite of Adobe apps—to make plugin development more reliable for other engineers. His background includes technical director and creative technologist roles at boutique studios, giving him a practical grasp of pipeline, live-action and motion graphics needs. Based in San Diego, he balances problem-solving with crafts like woodworking and drumming, bringing a maker’s attention to detail to both code and craft.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Cinema and Media Arts: Production, Bachelor’s Degree Cinema and Media Arts: Production at Biola UniversityGeneral Studies, General Studies at Palomar College
Github Skills (5)
typescript10
typescripts10
adobe10
typescript-types10
photoshop4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
docsforadobe/Types-for-Adobe
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
TypeScript types for Adobe: AfterEffects, Animate, Audition, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere, ScriptUI.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 28 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Justin made extensive updates to TypeScript typings for Adobe products, including After Effects, Premiere, Animate, and others. These updates involved modifying existing type definitions, adding new interfaces, and fixing errors to improve the developer experience. The commits indicate a focus on maintaining accurate and up-to-date type definitions for various versions of Adobe software. The user also addressed issues related to Premiere Pro and implemented updates for various Premiere Pro components.
indesignadobeextendscriptafter-effectsphotoshop
hyperbrew/create-bolt-cep
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Generate a new CEP Extension from the Bolt CEP boilerplate
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 74 pushes in 9 months
boltboilerplatecep
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