Taylor Mingos
Co-Founder And CTO at Playup.ai
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Mingos is a serial entrepreneur and technologist with 12 years of experience building products, teams, and startups—most notably founding Shoeboxed and exiting to Scaleworks in 2018. As Co-Founder and CTO of Playup.ai and former VP Hardware at VADE, he blends software, embedded systems, and product strategy to ship AI-powered devices and scalable SaaS. He has a strong track record in go-to-market execution, growing Shoeboxed to over a million users across 100 countries and leading cross-functional teams from engineering to deployments. A community builder in the Raleigh startup scene, he also mentors founders and has helped seed C-level networks for North Carolina entrepreneurs. His background in biomedical and electrical engineering plus time studying in Berlin gives him a global technical perspective and an aptitude for hardware-software integration. Outside work he follows urban planning and transportation closely, informing product ideas around mobility and civic tech.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng Biomedical Engineering Electrical Engineering German Studies, B.Eng Biomedical Engineering Electrical Engineering German Studies at Duke UniversityElektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik at Freie Universität Berlin
German, Spanish, English
Github Skills (23)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
api6
api-documentation5
activemodel4
attachment3
gitignore1
parser1
mvvm1
java1
kotlin1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tmingos/fpinscala-exercises
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
tmingos/discourse
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
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