Taylor Wilson
Staff Software Engineer
El Cajon,CA
Summary
Dynamic full-stack engineer with over 11 years of experience in designing and scaling SaaS platforms across monitoring, incident response, and e-commerce sectors. Expertise in JavaScript, Python, Java, and Ruby consistently drives impactful results in distributed systems, developer tooling, and high-scale web applications.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Etsy
Remote
09.2019 - Current
- Upgraded Etsy's marketplace platform by migrating Ruby on Rails monoliths to Java-based microservices integrated with GraphQL APIs, boosting service scalability and shortening build and deploy times by 20%.
- Standardized API contracts and data models using OpenAPI and PostgreSQL, improving schema reliability and reducing integration defects by 20%.
- Partnered with data science teams to integrate AI-driven product recommendations and personalized search ranking, increasing user engagement by 10% and click-through rates by 8%.
- Introduced a new feature flagging and experimentation system built on LaunchDarkly, allowing gradual rollouts and reducing production risk by 40%.
- Connected experimentation results to Datadog dashboards, helping product teams evaluate success metrics in near real-time.
- Rebuilt core buyer and seller flows using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL, cutting median page load times by 20% and improving accessibility scores by 15%.
- Worked closely with design and product teams to align technical delivery with roadmap goals, achieving 95% on-time feature completion across two consecutive quarters.
- Expanded observability by integrating Datadog and OpenTelemetry tracing across services, reducing time-to-detect incidents by 30%.
- Automated build and deployment pipelines with Jenkins and ArgoCD, introducing canary rollouts that reduced rollback frequency by 25%.
- Participated migration of 10+ legacy services into a Kubernetes environment powered by Kafka, improving data consistency and reducing cross-service latency by 25%.
- Conducted performance and capacity reviews using AWS CloudWatch and load testing tools, optimizing resource utilization and reducing cloud spend by 12%.
- Mentored 8+ engineers in distributed systems design and observability best practices, helping several reach senior-level proficiencies.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
PagerDuty
San Francisco, CA
05.2014 - 08.2019
- Engineered and scaled metrics ingestion pipelines processing millions of events per second, enhancing throughput and reducing processing latency by 30%.
- Developed microservices in Java and Python for monitoring and alerting, optimizing service architecture and decreasing deployment time by 25%.
- Modernized core metrics and dashboards UI using React and TypeScript, replacing legacy Backbone components and improving render performance by 40% for large datasets.
- Standardized logging, metrics, and observability across 50+ services, cutting incident detection time by 35%.
- Optimized storage and retrieval of time-series metrics using Cassandra and Kafka, lowering query latency by 40% for dashboards.
- Built high-throughput API services for dashboards and integrations, improving response times by 25%.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines and canary deployments, reducing rollback incidents by 30% and increasing release frequency.
- Conducted performance profiling and capacity planning, optimizing infrastructure usage and lowering operational costs by 15%.
- Mentored 6+ engineers on distributed systems, observability, and performance optimization, contributing to promotions and team skill growth.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of California
Berkeley, CA 04.2010 - 04.2014
Skills
Languages: JavaScript (React, Nodejs), Python, Java, Ruby
Cloud/Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra
Practices: CI/CD, Observability, Incident Response, Agile, Mentorship
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Timeline
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
06-2023
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
09-2022
Staff Software Engineer
Etsy
09.2019 - Current
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
PagerDuty
05.2014 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of California
04.2010 - 04.2014