Summary
Taylor Blount is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with a decade of engineering experience across fintech, POS, advertising, and healthcare, and seven years of hands-on professional experience. He has led multiple small teams and startups, building end-to-end products from backend architecture to customer-facing features, and helped launch a loan platform that distributed over $20M in its first year. Comfortable across cloud-native infra (AWS, Kubernetes), modern web stacks (Vue, React, Node), and rapid product pivots, he thrives in fast-moving environments where technical breadth matters. He also has experience mentoring and teaching as a former team leader at Lambda School, translating complex concepts into actionable guidance for engineers. A pragmatic problem-solver, Taylor pairs customer-facing empathy with the discipline to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer