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
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Etsy
09.2023 - Current
- Driving modernization of e-commerce platform with Ruby on Rails, Java microservices, GraphQL.
- Leading a cross-team initiative to migrate legacy services into a microservices architecture using Kubernetes and Kafka.
- Spearheaded observability adoption across engineering org with integrations from Datadog.
- Regularly present at internal engineering talks on scaling systems and monitoring best practices.
- Improved software performance by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in the codebase.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on schedule.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
PagerDuty
05.2020 - 08.2023
- Led the redesign of incident response dashboards in React + TypeScript, increasing usability and customer adoption.
- Built alert-routing microservices in Python and Java, reducing incident noise by 40%.
- Partnered with SRE teams to implement high-availability patterns across distributed systems on AWS.
- Mentored junior engineers and drove adoption of test automation.
Senior Systems Engineer
New Relic
01.2016 - 04.2020
- Designed observability features for application performance monitoring (APM) using Java, Python, and React.
- Improved query engine performance by 30%, reducing infrastructure costs and latency.
- Developed internal tooling in Ruby on Rails to streamline data ingestion pipelines.
- Collaborated with DevOps teams on CI/CD adoption, using Jenkins and Kubernetes for reliable deployments.
Education
B.S. - Computer Science
University of California
01.2016
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
Staff Software Engineer
Etsy
09.2023 - Current
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
06-2023
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
09-2022
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
PagerDuty
05.2020 - 08.2023
Senior Systems Engineer
New Relic
01.2016 - 04.2020
B.S. - Computer Science
University of California
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