Taylor Raack
Principal Software Engineer at Fastly
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Raack is a Principal Software Engineer and platform architect with over 20 years of experience delivering reliable, scalable cloud-native and on-premises systems, currently shaping platform efforts at Fastly and mentoring engineers through Code with Aloha. He has a strong track record leading cross-organizational platform integrations and MLOps at scale—most notably driving post-acquisition integration that added $51M ARR and championing Kubernetes best practices to cut incidents and boost availability. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and machine-learning infrastructure, Taylor has built high-throughput trading engines, entity-resolution and NLP systems, and real-time transit apps, and contributes to open-source tooling such as Back In Time where he improved backup profiles and CI. Based in Honolulu, he pairs deep systems design with hands-on implementation and a curiosity for aerospace and autonomous vehicle tech, and—less obviously—never says no to a spicy curry.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science Integrated Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Integrated Science at Northwestern UniversityMaster’s Degree Computational Data Science Very Large Information Systems Computer Science BigData Systems, Master’s Degree Computational Data Science Very Large Information Systems Computer Science BigData Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
rsync10
linux10
backup10
travis-ci10
python10
testing10
qt8
json6
configuration-management6
stanford-nlp6
apache-spark6
machine-learning6
dynamic6
playframework6
scala6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bit-team/backintime
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
A comfortable and well-configurable graphical Frontend for incremental backups, with a command-line version also available. Modified files are transferred, while unchanged files are linked to the new folder using rsync's hard link feature, saving storage space. Restoring is straightforward via file manager, command line or Back In Time itself.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 commits, 19 PRs, 163 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Taylor contributed to the Back In Time project by implementing a feature to modify the profile for full system backups, which involved changes to the settings dialog and configuration logic. They also set up a Travis CI configuration file to enable automated testing for the project. Furthermore, the user fixed issues related to file information persistence and reading within the snapshot functionality, ensuring data integrity. Additionally, the user implemented changes to allow for local mode mounts over bindfs.
incrementalpythonrsync-backuprsynctimemachine
pageaccel/pageaccel-chrome
Nov 2016 - Jan 2021
Loads streamlined, accelerated, easy-to-use web pages on websites that offer it.
Contributions:36 pushes, 13 branches, 20 tags in 4 years 2 months
offeracceleratedconfigurablechrome
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