Steven Taylor
Principal Engineer at The Alessandra Foundation
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Taylor is a Principal Engineer based in San Carlos, CA with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native platforms and distributed systems. He has led architecture and cloud transformations at SAP and VMware, driving Kubernetes, Istio, containerization and zero-trust PaaS initiatives that enabled global SaaS and API strategies. A pragmatic builder who prefers solving problems others call impossible, he blends hands-on coding (NodeJS, Java, C++, .NET) with executive-level strategy and cross-business orchestration. He also co-founded a startup streamlining legal transcript workflows and advises a nonprofit on an offender-search platform—demonstrating a knack for applying infrastructure expertise to both commercial and social-impact products. Known for low-level systems work (in-memory databases, networking protocols) as well as platform and API design, he consistently bridges operational realities with forward-looking architecture.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Technology - Web Stream, Masters Information Technology - Web Stream at Macquarie UniversityAssociate Diploma Electrical Engineering, Associate Diploma Electrical Engineering at North Sydney Technical College
English, German
Github Skills (51)
docker10
ecosystem9
container9
golang9
go9
juju8
diego8
assemble8
moby8
lifecycle8
devops7
bosh7
kubernetes7
cloud-foundry7
linux7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hashneo/save.tv
Aug 2015 - Jan 2021
German Save.TV download manager
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 6 months
downloaderdownload-managerandroidtv
hashneo/update-route53
Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
Simple node.js app to update route53
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
route53node-jsupdatenodejsaws
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