Nathan Taylor
Staff Program Analyzer at Semgrep
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan 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
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computing Science, B.Sc Computing Science at University of AlbertaPhD (incomplete) Computer Science , PhD (incomplete) Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinM.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (6)
virtualbox5
drupal5
ansible4
vagrant4
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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