Taylor Jones
Principal Software Engineer at Genesys
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Jones is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently leading JVM-based backend development and architecture at Genesys from Raleigh, NC. He specializes in Java and Groovy, with practical frontend JavaScript skills and a history of working across Python, PHP, and Go in Linux environments. At Genesys and previously Cisco, he progressed from senior engineer to principal, driving scalable solutions and mentoring teams on large codebases. Taylor is an active open-source contributor—helping improve projects like the Mamute Q&A engine (Solr integration and DAO refactors) and the excel-streaming-reader library (bug fixes and documentation). He combines hands-on debugging and build-tool fluency with a pragmatic approach to search, data access, and streaming I/O problems. A North Carolina State Computer Engineering graduate, he pairs systems-level thinking with a focus on reliable, production-grade software.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
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json
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Github Skills (19)
back-end-development10
solr10
java10
javas10
excel10
apache-poi10
json9
spring-mvc9
hibernate9
database-management8
jenkins6
out-of-memory6
curl6
php6
sql6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
monitorjbl/excel-streaming-reader
Apr 2014 - Apr 2021
An easy-to-use implementation of a streaming Excel reader using Apache POI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 186 commits, 61 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the excel-streaming-reader library. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, specifically addressing issues in StreamingRow and StreamingCell classes. They updated the code to include missing cell policies and correct the cell types. In addition, the user updated and improved documentation throughout the codebase.
streamingapachereaderpoiexcel
caelum/mamute
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
Q&A Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 20 comments, 1 issue in 6 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Q&A engine. Their work involved updating the build script, adding system properties for database configuration, and integrating Solr search functionality. Further contributions included refactoring DAO methods for efficiency and bulk fetches. The user also secured and moved the index synchronization method.
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