Taylor Downs
Senior Atlantic Fellow For Social And Economic Equity at Open Function
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolTaylor Downs is a technology and policy leader who blends a decade-plus of product and engineering experience with deep expertise in digital public goods and equitable AI governance. As founder and CEO of Open Function (OpenFn) and co-founder/early CEO of Vera Solutions, he has delivered integration and automation platforms used by UNICEF, WCS, IRC and dozens of NGOs across 40+ countries. At LSE he researches how securitized AI policy shapes democratic participation, and he contributes to GovStack’s core technical committees, leading work on workflow engines and information mediators. A recognized social-impact technologist—Forbes 30 Under 30, Echoing Green and PopTech fellow—he pairs field experience from Southern Africa in public-health program design with product-led scaling of infrastructure for the international development sector. Notably, he combines hands-on platform building with policy influence, focusing on secure, stable, and interoperable digital public infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Religious Studies, BA, Religious Studies at Amherst CollegeLondon School of Economics and Political Science
English, French
Github Skills (183)
interoperability10
toolbox10
expressions10
automation10
dpi10
api10
scalable10
lightning10
integrate10
resque10
elixir10
adaptor10
workflow-automation10
phoenix-framework10
connectors10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenFn/language-nexmo
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
A language-package for communication with the NEXMO api.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 years 11 months
apinexmonexmo-apicommunication
OpenFn/language-postgresql
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
A language-pack for running SQL queries against a PostgreSQL database.
Contributions:20 releases, 19 reviews, 20 PRs in 6 years 1 month
postgresql-databasesql-querieslanguage-packadaptorsql
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