Taylor Giampaolo
Owner at OBS Project
Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Giampaolo is a games-industry technologist and founder with a decade of hands-on experience building web platforms, live-broadcast systems, and community infrastructure that scale to 100,000+ daily users. As owner of Equistellar Media and long-time volunteer at the OBS Project, Taylor blends product design, UI/UX craftsmanship (notably theming work for the widely used OBS Studio) and web development to improve streaming workflows and user experience. He has led technical production for esports events—serving as technical director, broadcast TD, and producer—while also creating in-house tooling as a lead software engineer. Comfortable across operations, social media, and system administration, he’s known for shipping practical solutions under live-event pressure and rallying community contributors around unified design goals. A self-described “Chaotic Good software guy,” Taylor pairs creative problem solving with a focus on polished interfaces and dependable live systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Sheridan CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Fort Erie Secondary School
English
Github Skills (7)
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video-recording8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
obsproject/obs-studio
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:231 reviews, 43 commits, 106 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the UI/UX of OBS Studio, with a focus on theming and visual styling. Their work involved creating and adjusting themes, specifically the Acri, Rachni, and Yami themes, by modifying CSS/QSS files. They also added styling for YouTube integration and made adjustments to the main window dock structure. Further contributions included adding and modifying icons, as well as refining the appearance of various UI elements like volume meters, scrollbars and media controls.
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Warchamp7/obs-studio
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
Contributions:5 PRs, 303 pushes, 89 branches in 5 years 1 month
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