Summary
Taylor Stutts is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on experience building C# applications and MS SQL Server-backed systems, primarily in the US healthcare sector. Currently leading Monroe operations for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana after a long tenure at Vantage Health Plan, he combines day-to-day coding chops with people management—having led and evaluated teams of 6–8 programmer/analysts. He favors clean, maintainable code and designs with foresight to minimize refactors and redeploys, while still delivering practical solutions under deadlines. Comfortable across scheduled jobs, APIs, Windows apps, and database design, he’s fluent at translating business requirements into reliable production software. Outside work he explores game development via Unity/Unreal and plays instruments, reflecting a creative problem-solving streak that informs his technical work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Louisiana at Monroe
Louisiana Tech University
English, Spanish