Taylor Finnell

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Taylor Finnell

Software Engineer

Currently living in Orlando, Taylor is a Rubyist at heart and loves building platform tools and products that make other developers' lives easier. He has a keen interest in well written, well tested, and maintainable code. He thrives in the backend but is comfortable in all aspects of the stack.

Skills & Technologies

Ruby

Crystal

Rails

TypeScript

JavaScript

Git

React

Postgres

Redis

Vue

EC2

SNS

S3

React

Hadoop

HBase

Storm

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Medecision

2019-

Maintained and enhanced a large custom Rails ERP framework with a Vue frontend used to implement applications for various healthcare needs
Planned sprints, stories and architected features for engineering teams
Implemented strict TDD practices to enhance maintainability of the codebase

Senior Software Engineer

J.D Power

2015-2019

Architected and implemented privacy safe software to correlate online ad views to brick and mortar car sales
Migrated existing systems to a Hadoop stack to meet scaling demands
Managed a Storm cluster processing billions of records each month
Implemented serverless AWS technologies to allow infrastructure savings

Software Engineer

Siemens Energy

2013-2015

Developed custom C# applications to satisfy business needs
Architected geolocation service for Siemens facilities integrating with Google Maps
Developed custom Sharepoint applications to meet specific business needs

Personal Projects

ezstats.gg

VALORANT Stat Tracking

2020-

Written in Ruby with a Vue frontend, ezstats is a stat tracking website for the popular competitive shooter VALORANT. The site tracks thousands of players and hundreds of thousands of data points to compute various stats and trends.

hqbuff.com

HQ Trivia Fan Site

2018-

Written in Crystal with a React frontend, HQ Buff is a fan site for HQ Trivia where users can view and replay historical games. HQ Buff has archived over 2,500 games across 3 countries.