Keaton Taylor
Senior Security Engineer at Toyota Connected North America
Louisville, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKeaton Taylor is a Senior Security Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms, currently driving security efforts at Toyota Connected North America. He blends deep cloud-native and SRE experience—spanning AWS architecture, DevOps automation, and platform reliability—with a strong focus on secure, efficient patterns for company-wide developer tooling. Keaton's background includes hands-on roles from build automation and release engineering to site reliability, demonstrating an ability to turn chaotic systems into repeatable, auditable pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has improved real-time media integrations for Home Assistant’s alexa_media_player, revealing a practical knack for backend protocols and device state synchronization. Based in Louisville, Colorado, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective that balances operational resilience with security-first design.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Information Technology and Security, Computer Science, Information Technology and Security at Tarrant County CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasComputer Science, Computer Science at Richland College
English
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Github Skills (10)
alex10
home-assistant10
lex10
python10
back-end-development10
websocket9
api8
apidoc8
nginx6
reverse-proxy6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
alandtse/alexa_media_player
Jul 2018 - May 2020
This is a custom component to allow control of Amazon Alexa devices in Home Assistant using the unofficial Alexa API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 35 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Keaton contributed significantly to the `alexa_media_player` repository, focusing on enhancing the functionality related to Amazon Alexa device control within Home Assistant. Their commits involved implementing new features such as running Alexa skills, improving websocket communication for real-time player state updates including Bluetooth state changes. They also refactored and added code to improve the integration's ability to handle media controls and interaction with Alexa devices.
apiassistantamazongoogle-homehome-assistant
keatontaylor/home-assistant-config
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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