Taylor Barnett-torabi
Staff Product Manager at Netlify
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Barnett-torabi is a Staff Product Manager and seasoned developer relations leader with 12 years of experience helping developer teams succeed through community, documentation, and empathetic technical support. Based in Austin, they’ve built and launched open source projects, prototyped across languages like JavaScript and Python, and contributed documentation to high-profile guides such as the Real Python best practices repo. Taylor has a track record of shaping product and developer experience at companies including Netlify, PlanetScale, Stoplight, and Keen IO, blending hands-on engineering instincts with product strategy. A confident public speaker and outreach contributor to the OpenAPI Initiative, they excel at translating complex APIs into approachable examples and content. Notably, their background spans both engineering and community roles, enabling them to quickly learn new stacks and craft developer-focused product direction.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelors of Science and Arts in Computer Science with Minor in Business, Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelors of Science and Arts in Computer Science with Minor in Business at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (15)
textbook10
guideline10
docbook10
rs10
virtual-environment10
python10
storybook10
documentation10
user-guide10
keen-io6
data-modeling6
data-structures6
javascript6
access-keys6
java6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
realpython/python-guide
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Python best practices guidebook, written for humans.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the documentation of the Python guide. Their work involved refining existing documentation related to virtual environments, correcting formatting issues to ensure proper code block display, and adding examples to enhance user understanding. Additionally, the user updated the install guides to link to the main virtual environments documentation. This work focused on clarifying and improving the usability of the guide.
guidebookpythonkennethreitzrequirements-managementfor-humans
keen/community-code-of-conduct
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
keen-iocode-of-conduct
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