Summary
Taylor Wong is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently shaping Homes and D2C products at HomeLight in Culver City. Skilled in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React and Redux, Taylor has progressed from growth and home-search engineering roles to engineering management and back to senior individual contributor work, demonstrating both technical depth and people leadership. Known for a relentless curiosity and a practical tinkering mindset, Taylor has a track record of winning hackathons and shipping features that improve user experience and operational efficiency. Past roles include consolidating services and speeding deployments, and prior experience spans security-focused client portals and enterprise implementations in hospitality. Taylor combines an economics background from UC Irvine with immersive software training from App Academy, which gives a pragmatic, user-centered approach to product engineering. Outside of work, Taylor’s appetite for continual learning often surfaces in cross-functional problem solving and hands-on optimizations that quietly reduce friction across teams.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Software Development, Software Development at App Academy