Taylor Lovett
Managing Director Of Web Development at BlueSuite
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Lovett is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on builder with 13+ years of experience scaling web teams and delivering enterprise-grade products. Currently Managing Director of Web Development at 829 Studios and Principal Full Stack Engineer at BlueSuite, he blends executive leadership—having run organizations of 60–100+ engineers—with day-to-day architecture and shipping of full-stack systems. He specializes in modern JavaScript stacks (Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js), serverless/AWS architectures, and production AI integrations such as LangChain-based RAG pipelines. A long-time contributor to WordPress ecosystem projects like ElasticPress and the WP REST API, he pairs deep CMS knowledge with modern performance and observability tooling (Ignite for Sanity, Monitor). Known for recruiting and mentoring senior engineering managers, he builds high-performing cultures that balance velocity with long-term scalability. Based in Bethesda, MD, he uniquely straddles executive strategy and code-level delivery, often driving product initiatives while still shipping critical features himself.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of MarylandLandon School
Github Skills (20)
woocommerce10
content-management-system10
javascript10
wordpress10
css10
php10
content-management10
jekyll10
html10
rest-api10
unit-testing9
markup9
syndication9
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
10up/Engineering-Best-Practices
Sep 2014 - Oct 2021
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 252 commits, 113 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily focused on restructuring the repository and building out the initial index.html page, including a table of contents. They implemented and styled the code blocks and syntax highlighting within the documentation using CSS. They also updated the header and footer templates, making changes to the site's navigation and career links, while also cleaning up existing content.
reactjsjavascriptreactengineering
10up/distributor
Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
Share content between your websites.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 554 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily worked on enhancing the content sharing functionality within the "distributor" repository, a project focused on sharing content between websites. Their contributions involved implementing features like pushing post content intra-site, adding new functionality, and rethinking sync logging. The code changes focused on modifying PHP files, including classes related to internal and external connections, and also updating templates and data structures.
intranetcontent-distributorwordpresssyndicationcontent-management
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