Taylor Chen
Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable backend and platform systems across fintech and developer tooling at Stripe, Atlassian, and NerdWallet. Rooted in a University of Waterloo computer engineering background, Taylor has focused on SRE and backend engineering—shipping Python and Go libraries, messaging services, and AWS-native platform features for high-scale products like Confluence, Trello, and Stripe. Early internships at Datadog, Apple (CloudKit SRE), and SAP seeded a strong operational mindset and open-source familiarity, enabling a blend of developer ergonomics and production reliability. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Taylor brings pragmatic tooling instincts and a track record of improving platform reliability at scale, often surfacing subtle operational improvements across teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate InstituteComputer Engineering Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
21reputation
771reached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (61)
monitoring10
route5310
hugo10
dns-record10
ingress10
coredns10
integrations10
gcp10
agent10
aws10
datadog10
dd10
documentation10
kubernetes9
statistics9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
taylor-chen/dd-k8-example
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
taylor-chen/documentation
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
data-managementdatadogdocumentation-site
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