Nathan Taylor
Pacific Northwest, United States
Summary
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SeniorNathan Taylor is a systems-focused software engineer with nine years of experience working across runtime performance, distributed systems, and program analysis. Currently a Staff Program Analyzer at Semgrep, he brings deep low-level expertise from roles at Twitter (runtime and anti-spam), Fastly, Apple, and Fauna, plus hands-on research experience from Microsoft Research NYC and academic labs. He has taught operating systems and programming languages at multiple universities and progressed through research toward a PhD at UT Austin, blending rigorous academic practice with production-grade engineering. Known for tinkering with JVM internals, garbage collectors, and cache subsystems, he’s comfortable tracing problems from hardware-adjacent behavior up through tooling and services. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic researcher-engineer who turns complex analysis into actionable tooling for teams.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
vagrant5
drupal4
ansible4
virtualbox4
cms3
docker3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bioborg/eliberate
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
gort79/eLiberate
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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