Taylor Ninesling
Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Ninesling is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with a decade of experience building scalable infrastructure and developer-facing systems across AI, autonomous vehicles, and consumer platforms. Currently at Apollo GraphQL, Taylor is focused on infrastructure for AI-powered apps after implementing demand-control in the Apollo router to protect graphs from harmful queries. Their background includes hardening indexing and search at Cruise to reduce road event lag, automating AV software metrics, and building a natural-language compiler/runtime for browser tests at walrus.ai. Taylor combines systems-level engineering with product-aware implementations—shipping auth libraries and React component systems at DraftKings and improving observability and performance in distributed services. They hold a Master’s in Computer Science from UIUC and a dual Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Mathematics, with additional study in mathematics in Budapest, reflecting a strong theoretical foundation that informs practical engineering choices. Colleagues describe Taylor as a pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys turning researchy ideas into reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics at Hofstra UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMathematics, Mathematics at Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
English, Hungarian, Spanish
Github Skills (42)
spec10
javascript10
apollo-federation10
restify10
graph10
hapi10
graphql-subscriptions10
scale10
api10
federation10
gateway10
apollographql10
graphql10
express-graphql10
nodejs10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cdavietei/BeaconServer
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 44 pushes in 24 days
tninesling/ClosureSystemUpdate
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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