# Christophe Taylor > Senior Staff Software Engineer at Nurx / Thirty Madison Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christophetaylor Growing scalable engineering orgs with sustainable architectures and developer tooling ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ State Affairs Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States * Pushed across the line to a billion dollar valuation and profitability * Achieved ~$10 million increase in ARR in 2024 from self driven projects * Rebuilt Failed Payments Flow to flip from a 30% Recovery Rate to 70% * Managed migrations and integration of the nurx and thirtymadison architectures and codebases * Managed engineering roadmaps and backlog - worked with leadership to prioritize a balance of engineering driven initiatives, product features, and technical debt * Architected AI OCR model for processing insurance card images * Architected authentication migration and unification with Auth0 * Additional Tech: Kubernetes, Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Snowflake, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Terraform, Docker, GTM, Bash ### Staff Software Engineer @ Nurx Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States * Founded and built out core services team to address scalability, technical roadmap, developer tooling, infrastructure, engineering coordination, and technical documentation * Upgraded Ember across major versions to latest and modernized codebase Trained up a frontend team to successfully take ownership * Rebuilt build, testing, and deployment flows to go from multiple deployment incidents a week and an average 2-4 hour time to deploy changes down to about 20 minutes to go merging a PR to production and the near disappearance of deployment related incidents * Built out engineering mentorship program and standardized technical interviews with scoring rubrics, training processes, and iterative improvement maintained and architected a tech stack deployed across a physical pharmacy fulfillment center, consumer web/mobile, and platform/provider interface * Built a strong foundation of documentation and a continuing culture of good documentation * Grew Engineering Team 6x from 10 engineers to 60 before the acquisition * Additional Tech: EC2, SNS, Cognito, Splunk, Mode, GTM, Bash ### Senior Software Engineer @ Nurx Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Copper Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, CA ### UI Architect @ Zephyr Health Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### Developer Contract @ Scribe Healthcare Technologies Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ● Ingesting and modeling data from NLP parser into neo4j node database ● Creating NodeJS libraries to translate front end queries into cypher queries for neo4j ● Developing general libraries for exploring large data sets visually through the use of shadow queries ● Writing a node graph interface search application for exploring large graph based data sets ### Senior Software Engineer @ MarkLogic Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 • Architected and built a suite of flexible visualization tools and integrated them with an application builder wizard as well as releasing them as a library and framework for use in developing custom applications • Provided mentorship and leadership to junior members of the team • Invented new techniques for exploring large data sets visually through the use of shadow queries • Lead my team to stick to modern standards like code reviews, semantic markup, linting, and consistent code formatting across a product. ### Front End Software Engineer @ Jelli Inc Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Mateo, CA • Organized and lead weekly code reviews with the front end team and initiated some agreed upon coding standards to follow, as well as encouraging documentation of our code. • Developed a quick template for building out administrative tools for our site. • Heavily documented our XMPP chat system and assisted in implementing the chat feature on our iPhone app. • Experience setting up and running ruby servers and configuring apache as well as going through complex deployment processes and writing simple bash automation scripts. ### Co-Founder @ Clinical Trial Search Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 * Built a web scraping engine to collect clinical trial data from disparate sources * Worked with team to develop NLP models and medical ontologies to extract indexed facets from unstructured data * Designed and built a simplified web interface and matching algorithm for patients to discover highly relevant clinical trials for their conditions * Fully cross browser compatible frontend with dynamic pages and AJAX interactivity * Designed and documented system architecture ### Project Manager @ Iandiam Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 • Managed programming team of 5 people in India • Enforced deadlines, QA, delegated project responsibilities ### Hydrological Data Technitian @ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 • Developed website to publish real-time water quality data • Published weekly reports, wrote data analysis scripts • Contributed to scholarly paper regarding data http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vh9w3sw ### Web Developer @ Back in the Black Capital Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 Created and maintained websites for a variety of the business's clients. ### Pre-Viz Artist @ McCool Architects Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 Created 3d pre-viz renderings of architectural designs for several houses, a parking garage, and a subdivision. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ctaylorjs --- Source: https://flows.cv/christophetaylor JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christophetaylor/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01