Myk Taylor
Principal Software Engineer at Cisco WebEx
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolMyk Taylor is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining networked applications and appliances on open source platforms, currently driving engineering at Cisco WebEx from Sunnyvale. He brings deep expertise in cryptography, network security, and communications protocols, with a track record of shaping architecture and technical direction at companies including LogLogic and Symantec. Comfortable in Linux and OpenBSD environments, he focuses on production-grade network services and protocol robustness while also improving code quality and test automation in legacy and open-source codebases. Myk is an active contributor to games-related open source projects such as DFHack and OpenXcom, where his work ranges from unit-test frameworks to refactors that eliminate compiler warnings and hard-to-find bugs. Collected experience in research-driven environments and hands-on refactoring gives him a rare combination of exploratory R&D instincts and disciplined delivery. He pairs a UCLA CS background and long-tenured enterprise experience with a hobbyist’s attention to detail that surfaces in improving obscure code paths and test coverage.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
c-language10
compiler-errors10
scripting10
architecture10
test-framework10
refactor10
lua10
warnings10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
architectures10
test-automation10
gameplay9
videogames9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DFHack/scripts
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
DFHack scripts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1473 reviews, 1126 commits, 1787 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Myk contributed to the DFHack/scripts repository by aligning the implementation of a quickfort script with the user interface behavior of Dwarf Fortress, which involved modifying the quickfort-dig-internal.lua file. Furthermore, the user implemented traffic settings that were added to the quickfort-dig-internal.lua file. Finally, the user has been fixing the files as well.
dwarf-fortressdfhack
DFHack/dfhack
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Memory hacking library for Dwarf Fortress and a set of tools that use it
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 releases, 1731 reviews, 1868 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Myk's commits primarily focused on enhancing the unit testing framework within the DFHack project. The contributions include fixing hardcoded function calls, adding pattern matching capabilities for unit tests, and refactoring the naming conventions of test functions. The user also refactored and migrated existing tests to utilize the newly implemented functionality.
memorydwarfdfhackdwarf-fortressmemory-hacking
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