Robert Taylor
Retired at Beaver Lake
Derry, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Taylor is a seasoned software development leader with over three decades of technical and managerial experience, most recently retired after leading engineering teams at Monotype and Beaver Lake. He specializes in building portable, cross-platform production tools and core libraries for embedded and consumer devices, and has deep experience with agile (Scrum), distributed and offshore teams. Robert pairs hands-on technical oversight with customer-facing product development—regularly liaising with sales, marketing and OEM partners to translate requirements into shipped software. His background in physics and early career work on electro-optics and image processing inform a methodical, data-driven approach to engineering problems. Known for introducing process improvements (Agile, CMM) and mentoring engineering teams, he brings a pragmatic mix of strategic planning and technical craftsmanship. Based in Derry, NH, he combines legacy systems expertise with a knack for making complex, cross-platform projects reliably maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Physics, Master of Science (MS), Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (15)
opentype10
truetype10
cjk10
opentype-fonts10
variable-fonts9
kerning9
fonts9
nodejs9
woff9
opentypejs9
javascript8
classification3
sanitizer2
editing2
machine-learning2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Monotype/variableFont.js
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 2 years 6 months
js-libraryfontvariable-fontsfontshandling
Monotype/OpenType_Table_Source
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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