Summary
Mac Taylor is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems—from real-time Game-Fi servers supporting hundreds of concurrent players to compliance and FinOps services at Binance. He blends domain-driven design, CQRS, event sourcing and strong DevOps practices (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, monitoring) to optimize cloud infrastructure and database performance at scale. A math-minded engineer with a research background in automated theorem proving, GAN-augmented handwriting recognition and CV (Yolo, Mask-RCNN), he brings rigorous, data-driven problem solving to engineering decisions. Mac has led teams, organized large open-source conferences and shipped consumer-facing games and patented hardware-software products, reflecting a rare mix of backend, embedded firmware and product-facing experience. Based in Tokyo, he is an active advocate for open-source culture and enjoys staying hands-on across the stack to turn research insights into deployed systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at National Kaohsiung Normal University
Mathematics, Mathematics at National Changhua University of Education
Associate's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Associate's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering at Fortune Institute of Technology
Japanese, English, German, 繁體中文, French