Riley Taylor
Engineering Team Lead at Staffing Engine
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolRiley Taylor is an engineering team lead with 10 years of experience specializing in front-end development and a focus on accessible, high-performance web experiences. Based in Tucson, Arizona, Riley has progressed from desktop support to senior engineering roles, leading full-stack teams and shipping production apps across Ember.js, React Native, Vue.js, and Rails/Django backends. At Staffing Engine and previous companies like TrueCoach and Knack, Riley combined hands-on development with people leadership, mentoring engineers while driving product-quality improvements. They have a track record of stepping into leadership gaps—having filled senior and team lead roles organically at the University of Arizona—demonstrating reliability under transition. Riley’s background in automation and scripting from early IT work still informs a pragmatic approach to developer tooling and DevOps. Outside typical engineering credentials, Riley holds a bachelor’s degree in clarinet performance, reflecting creative discipline and attention to detail that carry into their craft.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaHigh School Honors, High School Honors at Peoria High School
English
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Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Bernie-2016/Connect-Windows
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 55 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 months
windowsbernie
rileytaylor/5etools
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
minecraft
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