Taylor Hadden
Senior Tools Programmer at Epic Games
City of Albany, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Hadden is a Senior Tools Programmer with a decade of experience building developer tooling for games, currently contributing to Epic Games after roles at NetEase, Obsidian, and Vicarious Visions. He specializes in empowering creators through bespoke tools and pipelines that speed content production and reduce friction between designers and engineers. A Champlain College game design graduate, Taylor blends game-first empathy with robust engineering practices across large studio workflows. Known for an insatiable habit of writing code, he pairs hobbyist game development with professional tooling work—often solving edge-case production problems that quietly keep teams shipping.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Game Design, Bachelor of Science Game Design at Champlain College
Github Skills (105)
webapp10
game-engine9
compiler9
game-development9
css9
chrome9
nodejs9
html8
javascript8
wysiwyg8
rich-text-editor8
open-source8
flatpak8
quill8
rich-text8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
suchnsuch/Tangent
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
The publicly-available modules of the Tangent project.
Contributions:9 reviews, 40 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
taylorhadden/typewriter
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024
A rich text editor based off of Quill.js and Ultradom, and using Svelte for UI.
Contributions:20 pushes, 47 branches in 3 years 6 months
contenteditabletext-editingquillwysiwygjavascript
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