# Taylor Parrish > Software Engineer Location: Bend, Oregon, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/taylorparrish Autodidactic, self-motivated engineer with a proven history of shipping quality code on time and under budget. Most interested in architecting scalable, fault-tolerant systems and processes to solve business problems for data-centric organizations. Comfortable solving problems and leading engineering efforts across a variety of web stacks, open source tools, and programming languages to optimize engineering impact for business critical applications and data flows. Languages: Python, Javascript, Typescript, Rust, C#, SQL, Bash Tooling: Airflow, AEther, Docker, VScode, Visual Studio, Github Actions, Jira, Figma, Lucid Charts, Swagger, Sphinx, MyPy, PyTest, Jest, Cargo, XState, Redux, MobX, Matomo, Google Analytics, Cloud tech: Cloud functions; Dockerized services w/ cloud compute or VM instances; cloud RDS and object stores for data warehousing, ETL and ingestion pipelines; most familiar with AWS and Azure, minor experience with GCP for cloud RDS and web application hosting. Web tech: React, Next.js, Node.js, Deno, Django, Sanic, Flask, .NET Database tech: MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Firebase, GraphQL ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Confidential Jan 2024 – Present ### Staff Engineer @ Forma Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Staff Engineer @ Avenue 8 Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Senior Data Engineer @ Avenue 8 Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Data Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Support the Cortana Language and Understanding team - Designed and shipped a scalable system for processing text data with a validation / testing framework - Collaborated on design and implemented a data processing pipeline for multi-org dashboard - Contributed several components to team's NLP post-processing pipeline - Led development efforts with small team to ship internal end-to-end A/B testing platform for measuring NL query performance on different search stacks ### Software Engineer @ Tailored Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Work with SMB clients to ship marketing pages - Built a social network, a messaging app, and an expense tracking app - Developed Twitter scraping tools to surface thought-leaders and associated keyword clusters - Created visualization for word embeddings derived from a user’s Tweet history - Built a neural network to predict daily bike ridership for a bike share program - Implemented a GAN to generate faces from the CelebA dataset and trained on AWS - Implemented CNNs for classification, style transfer tasks and trained on AWS ### Co-Founder @ Relate.io Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Implemented: - Several SPAs and a full featured front-end secured with Oauth2 and user permission groups Designed and implemented: - A parallel, concurrent data processing pipeline using async task queues and multiprocessing - A CLI and web service for scraping + analyzing personal Gmail data - An NLP pipeline to extract, clean, tokenize, and store all personal email message bodies. - An interactive graph visualization for network data parsed by web service Tools Used: Python, Javascript (es2016), Bash Next.js, Express, Gatsby, React, Sanic, D3.js Netlify, Google App Engine, Gcloud SQL, Docker Postgres, Redis, Firebase Flexbox, SCSS, React Hooks, Context API Git, Yarn, VScode, Sketch, Alembic, PSQL, Jupyter ### Software Engineer @ Smith + Crown Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 - Collaborated with small, distributed team of developers and designers - Participated in Agile sprint planning sessions - Shipped several core features of the Sci Intelligence Beta - Optimized app via Lighthouse to hit 100 in Performance, SEO, A11Y, and Best Practices Languages: Python, Javascript (es2016) Technologies: React, SASS, Aphrodite, MobX, Jest, Flow Next.js, Django, Graphql, Postgres, Relay, Graphene, Docker, VSCode, Gcloud, Chrome Devtools, Lighthouse, Gitlab ### Client Success Manager @ ShareRoot Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA - Automated product, sales, pipeline reporting for executive team - Worked with brands including Costco, Turtle Bay Resort, UCLA, Jukin Media - Measurably improved client retention and renewal rates - Coordinated between stakeholder groups to develop case studies and marketing materials ### Account Executive @ ShareRoot Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley - Developed best practices and messaging with SFDC and SalesLoft - Led team of 2 SDRs in becoming one of the top performing sales pods - Led product, demo, social selling, and data analysis training sessions for colleagues ### SMB Account Manager @ Twitter Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area - Responsible for $1.5M of quarterly advertiser revenue - Led execution and optimization of SMB email campaigns - Developed and piloted advertiser win-back process resulting in $40k quarterly revenue - Built custom lead lists and dashboards for colleagues using SQL, Python, Excel - Gave workshops on data analysis, Excel ### Account Associate @ Twitter Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area - Managed $1.25M in quarterly advertising revenue - Led team in executing and optimizing email campaigns using SQL, Excel, and Yesware - Built dashboards and visualizations for colleagues using SQL, Python, Excel - Gave workshops on data analysis, Excel ### Sales Development Representative @ Twitter Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco - Gave workshops on data analysis, Excel - Maintained best-practice documentation for SDR pilot program - Developed process for SDR lead prioritization using SFDC - Only member of SDR pilot cohort to be offered FTE ### Contractor @ Premier Staffing Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 - Fitbit (Tech Support T2) - Lumos Labs (Tech Support) - Whistle (QA / Product Testing) - Rocket Fuel (Data Entry) ### Co-founder at Telos Studios @ Telos Studios Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 - Organized fundraisers and promotional events - Led a team of 6 in remodeling a 10,000 ft/sq warehouse to host concerts and events - Organized and executed collaborations with local venues, vendors, and musicians ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Philosophy University of Oregon Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 ### High School Diploma in Music Performance, General Los Altos High School Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/taylor-parrish-55663379 - GitHub: https://github.com/T-parrish - Website: https://getrelate.io/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/taylorparrish JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/taylorparrish/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22