# Taylor Harrison

> Software Developer

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/taylorharrison

Full stack developer with diverse experience designing and building applications for clients in a wide range of industries. 7+ years of experience writing production code in a growing number of languages and frameworks. Passionate about solving challenging problems, improving automation, and delivering stable, well‐tested solutions.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Fig - Food Is Good
Jan 2023 – Present

### Lead Full Stack Developer @ Oak City Labs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 | Apex NC
- Worked with clients to build and maintain custom full stack web applications, from frontend to backend to deployment on AWS resources
- Mentored and managed a junior developer, reviewing pull requests and ensuring thorough testing and best practices
- Updated our stack from services run on VM's to containers in a multi-AZ Docker Swarm cluster
- Extensive use of Python, Flask, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Typescript/Javascript, Vue.js, AWS (EC2, EBS, RDS, ELB, S3, ECS, ECR, AWS Batch, IAM, VPC, Lambda, and more), Docker containers, Docker Swarm, Linux, Ansible, NGINX
- Set up CI/CD pipelines with Ansible, Github Actions, and TeamCity
- All code extensively tested (pytest and jest)
- Adapted to challenges unique to client's needs, for example:
    - Dynamic generation of PDFs (ReportLab), with live preview on frontend
    - Dynamic generation of Excel files with custom data validation
    - Maintaining audit trails around sensitive database records for HIPAA compliance
    - Handling checkout and subscription management on backend and frontend with Stripe
    - Integrating with third party API's

### Lead Android Developer @ Oak City Labs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Apex, North Carolina, United States
- Worked with clients to build custom native Android apps
- Extensive use of Kotlin, data persistence with Realm and Room, dependency injection with Dagger and Koin, ReactiveX style asynchronous programming with RxJava/RxAndroid, HTTP API usage with Retrofit, image loading with Glide and Fresco, background processing with WorkManager, maps and location with Google Maps and Mapbox, and testing with JUnit and Mockito
- Set up CI/CD pipelines publishing to the Google Play store with fastlane
- Adapted to challenges unique to client's needs, for example:
    - Background caching of Mapbox tiles for later offline use
    - Performant infinite scrolling RecyclerView feeds
    - Custom Android library for communicating with a hardware device via MQTT

### Android Developer @ deja mi
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Maintained and updated the WedPics Android app
- Extensive use of Java
- Implemented in-app-purchases with Google Play, updated UI with new designs, debugged features, helped implement new image editing features with OpenGL
- Gained experience with multithreading, JSON, Android OpenGL API

### R&D Intern @ Bennett Aerospace
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cary, North Carolina
- Developed an automated UAV ground control system for GPS waypoint flying using quadcopters
- Image processing using OpenCV
- Python programming on a Linux system using the Robot Operating System (ROS) and MAVProxy software

### Research Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Worked under clinical associate professor Kevin Caves at Duke University to design a low-cost assistive EMG switch to aid ALS patients with limited muscle control and strength
- Used Arduino microcontrollers and circuit design to take weak electrical signals from muscle and turn them into a binary on/off signal
- Interacted with patients and families while testing the device

### Senior Design Student @ North Carolina State University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Designed and programmed a concussion diagnostic device that tested for concussion symptoms using Android phone-based virtual reality. 
- Responsible for all software developed 
- Used the Unity 5 game engine (C#), deployed on Android device
- Integrated the Durovis Dive Unity plugin into custom tests for balance, memory, and reaction time


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical/Medical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-taylor-harrison

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Last updated: 2026-03-23