Taylor Mitchell
Experience
- Led successful Product Hunt launch (highest voted product of day),
including scaling infrastructure and rapidly delivering a mobile version
of our web app with minimal codebase changes in a tight timeframe.
- Ran technical interviews and hiring, created onboarding
documentation and mentorship program to quickly ramp up new engineers
and grow the engineering team.
- Shaped product design and created technical specifications alongside
CEO and design lead, balancing user needs with engineering
constraints
- Built Notion-like document editor with rich text editing, backed by
client-side data store supporting real-time sync and optimistic updates
with conflict resolution
- Improved development process by implementing engineering best
practices: automated testing, PR checklists, error reporting, analytics,
and AWS monitoring.
- Designed and implemented REST API backend for crisis evacuation web
application, working closely with frontend teams to define clear
interfaces. Application has since helped evacuate thousands of
families.
- Optimized Python ETL pipeline using vectorized operations and
performance profiling, achieving 10x throughput improvement and reducing
runtime from days to hours.
- Developed fuzzy matching system processing 30M records using Python
and Go, delivering accurate results within strict timeline.
- Led production support for $1.3M NLP processing solution on AWS,
managing client relationships, bug prioritization, and feature
development.
- Built ML model serving infrastructure with REST API supporting
inference and retraining, as part of $1.5M manufacturing advisory
system.
- Founded and led mentorship program supporting dozens of new data
scientists and engineers.
- Applied data exploration, visualization, and machine learning models
to identify the drivers of churn.
- Translated roughly defined business questions and goals into
concrete questions to answer with data.
- Designed industrial processing plant layouts in close collaboration
with engineers, managers, and clients.
- Built internal software to automate tasks and provide custom tools
for our 3D modeling software.
Technical Skills
- Full Stack Web: TypeScript, React, Node.js,
PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Real-time Sync
- Infrastructure & DevOps: AWS, CloudWatch,
CI/CD, Monitoring, Error Reporting, Automated Testing
- Data Engineering: Python (numpy, pandas), Go, ETL,
Large-scale Data Processing
Education
- University of Toronto - B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering and Robotics May 2013