Rebecca Taylor
Lead Technologist at Personal Hobby - Building Online Communities of Software Developers!
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Taylor is a Lead Technologist based in Seattle with 18+ years of hands-on experience guiding distributed Agile teams and shipping production systems across web, cloud, and AI domains. She blends deep back-end expertise (Ruby, .NET, Node.js, Python, C#) with front-end delivery of React SPAs and developer portals, and has led cross-border teams across the Americas and India. At Thoughtworks she built Backstage developer portals and more recently architected Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions using Azure OpenAI and LangChain to let companies "talk to their data." Her early career and long tenure at Google and Stripe underpin strong contributions to Google Cloud sample libraries and well-known projects like Passenger, demonstrating both product-facing SDK work and core server improvements. An avid community builder, she streams programming, creates tutorials, and has shipped indie gaming software with hundreds of thousands of downloads—bringing a public-facing, developer-relations mindset to technical leadership. She pairs practiced XP/TDD and CI/CD discipline with pragmatic prompt-engineering and hybrid semantic/keyword search patterns to accelerate AI adoption in engineering organizations.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Film Psychology Philosophy, Film Psychology Philosophy at University of North Carolina WilmingtonPsychology Theatre, Psychology Theatre at University of North Carolina Asheville
Github Skills (45)
google-api10
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
application-server10
bigquery10
expressjs10
python10
apidoc10
appserver10
sample-size10
google-cloud-datastore10
datastore10
gcp10
sample-rate10
google-cloud-storage10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/ruby-docs-samples
Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
Ruby samples for Google Cloud Platform products.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 498 commits, 183 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca primarily contributed to the Google Cloud Platform Ruby samples repository by adding and updating samples related to various GCP services such as BigQuery, App Engine (Hello World, Google Analytics, Cloud SQL, Cloud Datastore, Memcache, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage), and Cloud SQL. The work focused on demonstrating the use of specific GCP services within a Ruby environment. The user also updated the sample's dependencies and introduced documentation to help developers.
railsgooglegoogle-cloud-platformrubycloud-platform
googlesamples/io2015-codelabs
May 2015 - May 2015
codelabs for Google I/O 2015
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 5 days
Contributions summary:Rebecca contributed extensively to a web application codelab, demonstrating a focus on both frontend and backend development. They implemented features for user authentication, including OAuth 2.0 integration, and user-specific book management. The backend utilized Node.js, Express, and Google Cloud Datastore, while the frontend was built with Jade templates. Further commits show updates to a gRPC service, including client and server-side implementations.
google-apigooglegoogle-docscodelabsgoogle-workspace
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