Summary
Taylor Monacelli is a Linux Systems Engineer based in Seattle with 16 years of hands-on experience building and automating infrastructure for AWS and hybrid Windows/Linux environments. Currently at Amazon, Taylor focuses on scripting, CI-driven OS patching pipelines, and using Chef to bring WAMP stacks under version control, blending configuration management with cloud security practices like IAM and Lambda. Their background spans SRE and testing roles where they maintained Git workflows, deployed AWS VMs, authored PowerShell, Perl, and Python tooling, and automated image and installer builds. Known for pragmatic scripting and a preference for version-controlled infrastructure, Taylor brings a developer’s attention to reproducibility and a tester’s rigor to production systems. Early career work includes cross-platform backup automation and custom database tools, revealing a long-standing ability to bridge research, operations, and developer needs.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at University of Washington