Taylor Mckinnon
Software Engineer at Scality
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Mckinnon is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building and operating backend systems, currently focused on cloud storage at Scality in San Francisco. He contributes to prominent open-source projects such as Zenko CloudServer, improving S3-compatible server behavior, storage quota handling, Redis Sentinel support, and CI/runtime configurations. Comfortable across backend development and DevOps, he blends hands-on patching of metadata and HTTP behaviors with infrastructure tweaks that keep distributed storage resilient. Known on GitHub as a "Keyboard Wizard of the First Order," he pairs a tinkerer’s instinct with production-grade discipline. His background from 42 Silicon Valley underscores a self-directed, peer-driven approach to learning and problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
42 Silicon Valley
Github Skills (9)
nodejs10
docker10
object-storage10
devops10
back-end-development10
dockers10
redis9
aws-s39
configuration-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scality/cloudserver
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:124 reviews, 171 commits, 115 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Taylor's contributions primarily focused on improving the server-side functionality, as evidenced by the addition of the Accept-Ranges header, handling storage quota, and implementing features for push management mode. They also addressed configuration aspects by adding support for Redis sentinel, updating the Ceph CI image, and modifying the HTTP agent configuration in the docker-entrypoint.sh script. Furthermore, the user implemented fixes for new object metadata properties.
zenkostorageawsfront-endmultiple-clouds
tmacro/evec
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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