Stephen Taylor
Founder at TA Development
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Taylor is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building high-performance real-time graphics, animation systems, and distributed architectures across companies from Autodesk to Square Enix. He has shipped novel algorithms (published in Game Programming Gems), led delivery of large projects under tight deadlines, and founded multiple ventures including TheCoin Collaborative, TA Development, and Horde Software. Stephen combines deep technical craftsmanship—from microcontrollers to multi-machine game systems—with product intuition, having evolved TheCoin since 2017 into a unique climate-focused payment concept. He is relentlessly determined and finds joy in committing 100% to hard problems, a trait that drives both his consulting work and long-term venture commitments. Based in Montreal, he balances practical engineering with environmental impact—he is CO2-neutral and building tools to make that effortless for others.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at University of OtagoDunstan High School
Github Skills (200)
testing10
trunk10
swagger10
openapi10
api10
api-server10
nodejs10
api-client10
smart-contracts10
rest-api10
facebook10
contract10
security10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tadevelopment/fabric2arnold
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:101 commits, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
thecointech/thecoin
May 2021 - Apr 2025
Mono-repo for TheCoin project
Contributions:451 reviews, 614 PRs, 1673 pushes in 3 years 11 months
reactmono-repoethereummonoblockchain
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