Zachary Taylor
Software Engineer at GitHub
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolZachary Taylor is a software engineer with seven years of experience, currently building developer tools at GitHub from his base in New York. He combines a strong CS foundation with a mathematics background from NC State, bringing analytical rigor to systems and automation work. Known on GitHub for action-focused engineering (🛠@actions) and an interest in Rust (aspiring 🦀), he blends practical CI/CD expertise with curiosity about safe, performant languages. At GitHub he contributes to tooling that helps other engineers ship reliably at scale, emphasizing developer experience and automation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs hands-on implementation with thoughtful design. He’s equally comfortable iterating on developer workflows as he is digging into algorithmic details behind them.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (47)
localization10
pty10
timezone10
githubaction-workflow10
console9
tty9
dotnet9
web-components9
twitter-api9
command-line9
golang9
branches9
representations9
release-management9
cobra9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zaataylor/top-hn
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
A bot that tweets out the top-ranked post on Hacker News every 30 minutes (if there's a new top post)!
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 3 months
twitter-botpythonrankedbottwitter-api
zaataylor/poetry
Dec 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 5 years 3 months
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