Taylor Marks
Development Team Lead at Worldpay
Eliot, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Marks is a Development Team Lead with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently guiding delivery at Worldpay after progressing from senior engineer to team lead. He combines hands-on full-stack development with leadership, focusing on reliable, cross-platform solutions—evidenced by his maintenance and enhancement of the popular playsound Python module to support URL playback, robust macOS handling, and unit-tested quality. His background spans enterprise and startup environments, including IBM, Ovitas, and Infinio, giving him a strong foundation in scalable systems and practical engineering processes. Based in Eliot, Maine, he and his wife are open to relocating to Austin or Los Angeles, though they may stay in the Boston/Portsmouth area, reflecting a mix of personal flexibility and regional ties. Outside of work he has taken on community leadership as a former state lead, signaling a comfort with coordination and stakeholder engagement beyond pure engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityMarshwood High School
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Github Skills (32)
multiplatform10
python10
cross-platform10
macos10
unit-test10
ios9
exceptions9
git9
objective-c9
java9
cocoa9
stringbuilder9
android9
error-handling9
google-drive-api9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
TaylorSMarks/playsound
Jan 2016 - Jul 2021
Pure Python, cross platform, single function module with no dependencies for playing sounds.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 73 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily worked on the `playsound` project, a Python module for playing sounds across platforms. Their contributions involved enhancing the core functionality by allowing URL-based sound playback, fixing bugs related to path handling, and adding more robust platform-specific error handling, particularly on macOS. The user also added unit tests and integrated a testing framework to ensure code quality and maintainability. These changes improved cross-platform compatibility.
dependenciespythonpython3cross-platformpure-python
TaylorSMarks/StreamGameEngine
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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