Taylor Chaparro
Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Chaparro is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently contributing to HashiCorp from Spokane, Washington. He has a track record at companies like Zendesk and IntelliTect, bringing experience across SaaS and enterprise domains including prior healthcare analytics work. Taylor contributes to notable open-source infrastructure—adding Azure MSSQL elastic pool data source support to HashiCorp's widely used terraform-provider-azurerm—demonstrating proficiency in Go and provider integration. He excels at extending cloud tooling and writing robust tests to ensure maintainability in production-grade codebases. Known by the GitHub handle "desert oak," he pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to cross-team operability and long-lived infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Washington
Github Skills (9)
azure-resource-manager10
resource-manager10
arm10
terraformer10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Taylor contributed to the `hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm` repository by adding new data source functionality for Azure MSSQL elastic pools. Their work involved creating Go code, specifically `azurerm/data_source_mssql_elasticpool.go`, and related testing files like `azurerm/data_source_mssql_elasticpool_test.go`. They modified existing provider files to incorporate the new data source, demonstrating their ability to extend and maintain the provider.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
notchairmk/terraform-provider-azurerm
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Contributions:67 pushes, 25 branches in 3 years 6 months
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managertflintazure
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