Taylor Fahlman
Co-founder & CTO at Axon Data
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Fahlman is a Co-founder and CTO with 11 years of hands-on site reliability and infrastructure experience, currently building Axon Data from Portland, Oregon. He spent the bulk of his career at Red Hat advancing from Associate SRE to Principal SRE, specializing in Go, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Python, and Linux system administration. Taylor combines deep operational rigor with product-minded engineering—designing resilient cloud-native platforms and automations that scale. His background includes early work at CoreOS and open-source lab environments, giving him strong roots in upstream tooling and community-driven infrastructure. Trained in computer science (with an unexpected parallel study in vocal performance), he brings both technical discipline and creative problem-solving to leadership and startup-building.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Applied, Computer Science Applied at Oregon State University
English
Github Skills (200)
minecraft10
tooling10
hat10
exporter10
packing10
routes10
namespaces10
operator10
static-analysis10
commons10
dms10
provisioning10
kubernetes-operator10
sfml10
artifacts10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fahlmant/aws-account-operator
Mar 2019 - Nov 2021
Operator to manage pool of AWS accounts for Hive
Contributions:289 pushes, 100 branches in 2 years 8 months
pooloperatorkubernetesaccountsaws
fahlmant/backlog-api
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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