Taylor Wakefield
Co-Founder, COO at Teleport
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Wakefield is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and operator with 12 years in software and two decades of broader financial and startup experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and COO of Teleport in San Francisco. He has a track record of founding and scaling developer-focused platforms—previously co-founding Mailgun (acquired by Rackspace) and building Profista—while translating product vision into multi-million dollar businesses and operational scale. Comfortable at the intersection of security, developer experience, and cloud infrastructure, he helps teams simplify secure access across distributed environments. His background in structured finance and valuation brings a data-driven, risk-aware approach to product and growth strategy that few engineering COOs possess.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MUHSBS Finance, BS Finance at Boston College
Spanish
Github Skills (69)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/careers
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/teleport
Contributions:43 commits, 31 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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twakes/landscape
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Static Cloud Native Landscapes and Interactive Landscape that filters and sorts hundreds of cloud native projects and products, and shows details including GitHub stars, funding or market cap, first and last commits, contributor counts, headquarters location, and recent tweets.
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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