Summary
Taylor Chien is a Linux System Administrator with eight years of hands-on experience automating deployment and administration of Linux and BSD systems while managing diverse networking hardware and security tooling. Based in Saranac Lake, NY, he has supported research and enterprise environments — from maintaining hypervisors and migrating physical services to virtual machines and containers to securing and monitoring networks at CACI. Taylor blends practical infrastructure work (Xen, VMware, Proxmox, Cisco, Ubiquiti) with scripting-driven automation to reduce toil and accelerate repeatable deployments. He pairs a formal background in Network and Computer Security with a track record of turning legacy setups into auditable, virtualized services, often surfacing small but impactful operational improvements that keep systems resilient and manageable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Network and Computer Security, Bachelor's degree Network and Computer Security at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Advanced Regents Diploma, Advanced Regents Diploma at Saranac Lake High School
English