# Taylor Nielson > Skilled Engineer, Crypto Enthusiast, Avid Learner Location: Provo, Utah, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/taylornielson I am a Finance Major turned Computer Scientist with a passion for problem-solving and a strong focus on fintech and blockchain technologies. I am highly skilled in AWS, Solidity, Python, Javascript, Typescript, and smart contract development, and have extensive experience building data pipelines, micro-services and working with cryptocurrency. I have consistently been a top performer at every company I have worked for, and am always looking for ways to push myself to excel and deliver exceptional results. Whether I'm tackling complex technical challenges or leading high-performing teams, I am a highly motivated and dedicated professional who is always striving for success. If you're looking for a driven and talented software engineer to join your team, I am the perfect fit. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Realio Jan 2024 – Present | Remote ### Senior Software Engineer @ Realio Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote ### Team Lead/Senior Software Engineer @ Nerd Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | United States - Developed an innovative product that revolutionizes web3 Embedded Wallet API key system management by creating a user-friendly credential management solution with a web2-like user experience, including recovery. - Implemented robust API-based solutions for managing public and private keys, ensuring the security and recoverability of cryptographic credentials. - Utilized Go Ethereum (Geth) and Golang to build the core infrastructure for the product, ensuring high performance and reliability of API's and SDKs. - Expanded support for approximately 30 different blockchain chains and 3 key derivation types, providing comprehensive chain interaction capabilities. - Architected and implemented APIs that abstract the complexities of blockchain interactions, enabling developers with minimal crypto knowledge to seamlessly integrate blockchain functionality into their applications. - Leveraged AWS services and infrastructure to ensure scalability, availability, and robustness of the product. - Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, plan development sprints, and deliver solutions that meet customer needs and expectations ### Senior Smart Contract Engineer @ hashgraph.name Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Acquired by BCW Hedera’s number 1 naming service with over 20k names registered. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Upside Co-op Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States - Designed and developed 100+ RESTful APIs for customer and admin-facing applications using typescript NestJS to facilitate 99.999% uptime - Architected Integrations Service to connect to social media platforms and ingest web-hook events for 10,000+ users -Architected, Designed, Implemented a Notification Service to provide email, text, and in app notifications to increase user engagement by 63% - Enhanced internal admin react app and APIs to speed up operations and client onboarding by 37% -Augmented Testing quality by adding unit, integration, and e2e test to ensure 85% test coverage on legacy services and 100% on new services - Created 10+ AWS SAM templates to deploy services on AWS Lambda, ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Sqs, and Aurora (Postgres), via blue green deployment reducing deployment time by 50% - Improved deployment frequency from once a week to 5+ daily by migrating to a single CI/CD pipeline ### Software Engineer II @ TaxBit Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Draper, Utah, United States - Architected and Implemented document service (API, queues, event triggers, Typescript algorithms, and DynamoDB NoSQL database) to generate, store, and deliver 100+ million forms - Designed and Developed a modular event driven orchestration layer and ETL pipeline to scale throughput from 100k data points to 200 million data points - Refactored 5+ services to use Serverless infrastructure as code with CircleCI CI/CD to add 1000+ Jest tests, Integration Testing, - Improved continuous deployments for 5+ services to utilize canary automatic rollback and Datadog integration resulting in 90% less outages ### Software Engineer @ TaxBit Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Draper, Utah, United States -Architect, Design, and Implement a document service to generate, store, and deliver 1099-B and 1099MISC tax forms for crypto exchanges and brokerages (Paypal, Uphold, Blockfi) -Developed and modified existing systems to support Retroactive Cost Basis in 100 million+ accounting records. -Coded 25+ exchange integrations to ingest 20+ million user transactions ### Software Engineer Intern @ TaxBit Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Debugged Existing code to resolve 10+ Escalations a week Led a team of Interns to code 32+ CSV converters in 1 week to improve data ingestion by 300% Collaborated with partnered companies to provide data ingestion support Coded internal support tools to decrease customer support response time ### Lead Software Engineer for Department of Energy Project @ Brigham Young University Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 I led a team designing, developing, and updating software for the design and creation of new Catalyst models. I performed quantum chemical science simulations on the Supercomputer Cluster. -Contact Professor Dr. Daniel Ess for details (dhe@chem.byu.edu) ### High-Performance Computing Software Developer for Phillips 66-BYU Collaboration @ Brigham Young University Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Provo, Utah Area I developed programs to gather, format, and visualize data for Phillips 66. I also developed programs to interface chemical science simulations with high performance computing on supercomputing clusters. ### Accounting Clerk Intern @ Aspen Skilled Healthcare, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Provo, Utah Area I Coded automation of excel manipulation and data entry to significantly reduce the time required and to eliminate human error. I wrote a technical guide to clearly communicate process instructions and provide standardized procedures. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Brigham Young University Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/taylornielson --- Source: https://flows.cv/taylornielson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/taylornielson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22