Taylor Thornton
Principal Software Engineer at Upbound
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTaylor Thornton is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with eight years of experience designing and leading cloud-native platforms and orchestration tooling across AWS and GCP. He specializes in building microservices, CI/CD and platform automation using Go, Java, Python, Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, and Open Policy Agent to enable teams to ship reliably at scale. As a tech lead he’s driven platform initiatives—converting monoliths to microservices, enabling Go-based stacks via monorepos and CLIs, and implementing ABAC with distributed OPA enforcement for healthcare data. His open-source work includes meaningful contributions to the Crossplane AWS provider, adding instance creation flows and resource tagging that improve cloud resource lifecycle management. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex compliance and operational requirements into pragmatic, reusable platform services that reduce friction for downstream teams. He pairs deep systems-level engineering with a track record of empowering organizations to adopt modern cloud patterns quickly.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Applied and Computational Mathematics - Discrete Math and Algorithms, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied and Computational Mathematics - Discrete Math and Algorithms at University of Washington
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
api10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
aws-sdk10
aac9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane-contrib/provider-aws
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Crossplane AWS Provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 55 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Taylor's contributions primarily involved adding and updating the initial instances API for the AWS provider. The commits show implementation of the core create functionality for instances, including setting up necessary parameters. They also refactored parts of the code to streamline the controller flow and added a tagger for external labeling of resources. Additionally, the user added support for various instance-related parameters such as clientToken, dryRun, keyName, and several other properties for instance creation.
providerterraformawsterraform-modulecrossplane
upbound/homebrew-tap
Nov 2021 - Nov 2024
@Homebrew formulae for @upbound
Contributions:17 reviews, 9 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years
formulaehomebrewhomebrew-formulae
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.