Ryan Taylor
Senior Staff Engineer at HelloFresh
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Taylor is a Senior Staff Engineer in Old Toronto with 13 years of experience building robust distributed systems and backend platforms, specializing in Ruby, Rails, and increasingly Rust. He has progressed from hands-on full‑stack development in fintech to technical leadership and engineering management roles, culminating in senior staff responsibilities at HelloFresh. Ryan combines deep implementation experience (from legacy C++/C# traffic systems to modern Rails/React apps) with team-building and mentorship, having led hiring, architecture decisions, and sprint-level delivery. He’s comfortable shipping end-to-end features and shaping system reliability at scale, frequently bridging product needs and low-level technical tradeoffs. Colleagues would note his practical curiosity—able to move between shipping product features and diving into systems-level details to untangle tough distributed problems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (55)
parser10
duplicates10
file-parser10
quantitative-finance10
replay10
parsing9
quantlib9
hyphenation9
c-library9
cpp9
rust8
converting7
rust-lang7
html-email7
rust-language7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ryantaylor/nas
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
ryantaylor/flank
Sep 2015 - Apr 2025
A CoH replay parsing application written in Rust.
Contributions:8 releases, 227 PRs, 299 pushes in 9 years 8 months
rustcoh2replayparsing
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