Taylor Dahlin
Platform Engineer
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Dahlin is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building automated, maintainable systems and hardening custom software, currently driving platform work at NVIDIA. With a Computer Science degree from RPI and a background in application security at 2U, Taylor blends operational automation with a privacy-first security mindset to deliver well-documented, auditable tooling. An active contributor to open-source—helping improve pytube’s CLI, playlist handling, and documentation—Taylor pairs practical backend fixes with attention to user-facing clarity. Based in Fuquay-Varina, NC, they bring a mix of hands-on installation experience and production security practice, and are known for favoring pragmatic, privacy-preserving solutions and an affinity for foxes.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
French, English
Github Skills (3)
wrapper10
python10
documentation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pytube/pytube
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 67 reviews, 85 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the `pytube/pytube` repository by updating and maintaining the `setup.py` file, ensuring project accuracy. They also fixed documentation issues by replacing outdated references and made improvements to caption selection in the CLI. The user identified and addressed a Key Error. Additionally, they incorporated enhancements to the playlist functionality by integrating documentation.
downloadingpython-librarydownloaderpythonapi-wrapper
tfdahlin/gothmog
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
A Python C2 server and client with companion Nodejs web UI
Contributions:105 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
pythonweb-uinodejspython3companion
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