Taylor Brooks
Founder And CEO at Simple
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Brooks is a founder and CEO with 11 years of hands-on experience building product-driven companies from Austin, Texas, most notably Simple Donation, which he launched in 2012 to help churches and faith-based nonprofits simplify giving. He combines pragmatic engineering chops—modernizing legacy Rails into Ruby and Elixir microservices, introducing RabbitMQ, and speeding deployments via CI/CD—with a founder’s discipline for customer-focused product design and long-term stewardship. Prior roles include architect advisor work at Aetna, where he built a vertical search engine for healthcare pricing, and early-stage growth work at AppSumo that drove significant revenue quickly. Taylor pairs technical fluency across full-stack web tooling with operational rigor from running multiple startups, including an email product, DripEmails.com. Notably, he favors durable businesses over quick exits, emphasizing reliability, clear commitments, and making life simpler for customers.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Auburn University
English
Github Skills (200)
drag10
heroku-deployment10
sortable10
redux-store10
javascript-api10
splitter10
api10
netsuite10
ruby-wrapper10
resque10
react-dnd10
rms10
draggable10
drag-and-drop10
droppable10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
taylorbrooks/church_community_builder
Oct 2015 - Apr 2023
A Ruby wrapper for the Church Community Builder API
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
ruby-wrapperapirubybuilderchurch
taylorbrooks/heroku-buildpack-phoenix-static
Oct 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 3 months
heroku-buildpackherokubuildpackelixirphoenix
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