Mike Taylor
Senior Staff Engineer at CircleCI
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Taylor is a Senior Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience focused on security, compliance, and reliability engineering at CircleCI, where he has progressed from SRE manager to senior staff security engineer. Based in Philadelphia, he blends deep operational experience—from early systems administration to senior release engineering at Mozilla—with hands-on backend development in Python. A long-time open-source contributor, Mike has improved widely used libraries like parsedatetime, SleekXMPP, and python-twitter, contributing locale-aware parsing fixes, API compatibility updates, and test modernization. He brings a pragmatic balance of leadership and individual contributor muscle: driving incident-resistant platforms while still committing code and tests. His background on the XMPP Standards Foundation board and web UI tweaks for xmpp.org reveal a breadth spanning protocol governance to front-end polish. Colleagues rely on him to translate compliance requirements into measurable engineering changes that scale.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (26)
site-design10
datetime10
xmpp10
debug10
lib10
datetime-parsing10
python10
jinja210
apidoc10
testing10
date-parsing10
code-library10
twitter-api10
api10
html10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
bear/parsedatetime
Sep 2012 - Nov 2021
Parse human-readable date/time strings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 10 reviews, 232 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on the `parsedatetime` library, contributing to bug fixes and code improvements. Their work included adding tests for specific date scenarios like "last friday" and addressing issues related to unit handling within the date parsing logic. They also updated the setup and documentation, including migrating to Pytest for testing and preparing the code for a release. Additional contributions included fixes for locale-specific parsing, such as those relating to the French and Australian locales.
datetimedate-timereadablestringshuman-readable
bear/python-twitter
Sep 2012 - Dec 2021
A Python wrapper around the Twitter API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 18 reviews, 334 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on improving the Python wrapper around the Twitter API, focusing on enhancing functionality and maintaining compatibility. Their contributions include adding parameters to existing methods, such as `GetUserTimeline`, `PostUpdate`, and `PostRetweet`, reflecting updates to the API and addressing user-reported issues. They also refactored and improved existing methods such as GetFollowers and made adjustments to reflect v1.1 Twitter API changes. Finally they updated the project's dependencies.
apipythonpython-wrappertwitter-api-v2twitter-api
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