Michael Taylor
Senior Web Developer at Adobe
Northland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Taylor is a Senior Web Developer with 15 years of experience building high-performance 3D graphics, web and native applications, currently contributing to Adobe's Lightroom SDK front-end. He blends deep expertise from 13 years on Maya and Houdini development with modern JavaScript stacks (AngularJS/Node) to deliver cross-platform solutions including iOS and Mac ports. Notable work includes a recent 3D medical visualization shipped on both iOS and HTML5 and contributions to Adobe's Spectrum Web Components, where he implemented new component styling and build integrations. He often acts as the bridge between graphics-heavy native code (C++, Objective-C) and interactive web interfaces (JS, Python/Django, Ruby), making complex toolchains interoperable. Comfortable as a sole proprietor or within large teams, he has a track record of porting major graphics software to macOS and scaling rendering systems to cloud and production environments. Based in Northland, New Zealand, he combines systems-level intuition with practical front-end craftsmanship to choose and integrate the right technologies for each problem.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
css10
typescript10
javascript10
adobe10
web-components10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
storybook8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/spectrum-web-components
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Spectrum Web Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 135 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael implemented a new system for processing and integrating Spectrum CSS with web components. They worked on the implementation of new components such as `sp-button` and `sp-sidenav`, creating their styling and associated functionality. The commits also included code for fixing icon integration within the button component and making modifications to the build process to handle CSS and TypeScript compilation for storybook.
adobespectrumwebcomponentsweb-components
cuberoot/charismata
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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