Keefer Taylor
Founder at Tessellated
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKeefer Taylor is a founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building decentralized systems, validator infrastructure, and developer tooling from Google-scale products to blockchain primitives. Based in New York, he founded Tessellated to run PoS validators and public goods, previously launched algorithmic stablecoin work at Hover Labs, and led engineering efforts at StakerDAO and Xpring. He combines hands-on protocol implementation—such as contributing Tezos support to Trust Wallet’s cross-chain wallet-core library—with strategic thinking about censorship-resistant MEV and bridge design. Comfortable shipping production SDKs and low-level crypto integrations, Keefer blends product-level leadership with deep backend and blockchain engineering. An Area 120 alumnus with a computer science degree from University of Richmond, he often ships opinionated infrastructure that foregrounds decentralization and real-world incentives.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Richmond
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Github Skills (19)
c-language10
protocol-buffers10
tezos10
blockchain10
cprogramming-language10
protobuf10
cryptography9
base588
bitcoins7
bitcoin7
cryptocurrency7
cross-platform7
uiscrollview6
uitableview6
pipe6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
trustwallet/wallet-core
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Cross-platform, cross-blockchain wallet library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 18 PRs, 31 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Keefer's contributions primarily focused on integrating Tezos blockchain functionality into the wallet-core library. They implemented coin configurations for Tezos, including adding symbol, decimal, transaction URL, ID, and name configurations. They also worked on integrating Tezos address functionality and refactoring the code to use protobuf for interactions, including the addition of origination and delegation operation support. These changes enabled core Tezos operations, such as address derivation and transaction signing.
wallet-libraryblockchain-walletethereumblockchainwallet
TessellatedGeometry/oasis-monitor
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Automated Validator Monitoring for Oasis Validator Nodes, Wired to Pager Duty
Contributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pagerdutydutynodesvalidatorpager
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