Taylor Woll
Staff Software Engineer at Ginger Labs
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Woll is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building high-performance systems and web apps, currently leading web app foundation work at Ginger Labs from Redmond, WA. He brings deep compiler and runtime expertise—C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js—and a proven track record at Microsoft driving Edge performance through PGO, LTO and tooling that reduced memory and CPU for background tabs by large margins. An experienced contributor to ChakraCore and node-chakracore, he has implemented ES6 module support and runtime shims that helped bridge Chakra into the broader Node ecosystem. Taylor combines secure, test-driven design with Azure DevOps automation and a data-driven approach to feature rollouts and telemetry, and he’s comfortable operating at the intersection of compiler internals and customer-facing product features. Less obvious: he’s shipped foundational infrastructure improvements (like increasing PGO training cadence) that quietly improved stability and performance across releases.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Japanese, English
Github Skills (12)
nodejs10
chakracore10
javascript10
parser10
chakra10
bytecode10
ecmascript10
codegen10
javascript-engine9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
build-system8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chakra-core/ChakraCore
Feb 2016 - Sep 2020
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 1 review, 450 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Taylor contributed to the development of the ChakraCore Javascript engine. Their work focused on implementing support for ES6 module features, specifically handling import and export statements within the parser. The changes involved adding bytecodes and interpreter handlers for StModuleSlot and LdModuleSlot, along with better parsing for export default statements and fixing several issues related to module export resolution. Additionally, they made improvements to the handling of symbol descriptions within the engine.
javascript-enginechakracoreruntimemicrosoftc-api
nodejs/node-chakracore
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
Node.js on ChakraCore :sparkles::turtle::rocket::sparkles:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 249 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Taylor's commits primarily involve modifying and extending functionality of the Node.js ChakraCore project. The contributions include merging code from the master branch, fixing build issues, and adding stubs or shims for V8 API methods, such as those related to JSON parsing and stringification, and support for BigUint64Array. The user is working on supporting new features by implementing dummy shims and updating existing code to include required API.
v8-javascript-enginechakracorenode-jsjavascriptrocket
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