Taylor Wofford
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at Perchwell
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Wofford is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead based in New York with six years of experience building scalable React and Rails applications and a background as a politics journalist. He’s driven measurable product impact—doubling inventory counting speed, cutting HTTP requests by a third, and saving $50K annually by automating telephony workflows—while owning backend gems and GraphQL optimizations for millions of users. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic TypeScript and Python experimentation with production-grade Rails engineering and on-call/SOX responsibilities. A former staff writer, he brings strong communication and investigative instincts to debugging, design tradeoffs, and mentoring teams. Fun fact: he claims to be the dog in his profile picture, reflecting a lighthearted but focused leadership style.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at App Academy
English, Latin
Github Skills (20)
automobile8
react-redux8
nyc7
slick6
redux6
react5
kill5
slack5
rails5
perfect5
stock5
postgresql4
ruby4
pixel4
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
twofford/cars_kill
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Cars Kill is a dataviz of NYC automobile collisions built with D3.js.
Contributions:66 commits, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 1 month
reactcollisionscarsd3-jsdataviz
twofford/Slick
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Slick is a pixel-perfect clone of Slack built with React/Redux, Rails and PostgreSQL.
Contributions:252 commits, 2 PRs, 159 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pixel-perfectreactbuilt-with-reactrailsredux-rails
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