Taylor Leese
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorTaylor Leese is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 21 years of experience building scalable platform and distributed systems. As Founder and CEO of a stealth startup and as Founder/Partner at Milos Ventures, he combines hands-on engineering leadership with strategic business building in the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously led platform, storage, and networking initiatives at Twitter and LinkedIn, including Twitter's Platform Services and network engineering, and LinkedIn's Grid Storage & Streams, overseeing blob storage, Kafka-based messaging, and storage primitives such as shard and quota management. His career also spans guiding StackMob’s integration into PayPal, plus architecture roles at Gogo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, reflecting a rare blend of enterprise-scale infrastructure and research-driven software. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a BS from the University of San Francisco.
22 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
continuation10
python10
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app-engine10
spring-security10
guice10
http210
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twitter10
event-loop10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Belthazor2008/jappstart
May 2010 - Oct 2012
Contributions:198 commits in 2 years 4 months
taylorleese/google-app-engine-jappstart
Aug 2010 - Jan 2012
Java framework for Google App Engine
Contributions:170 commits in 1 year 5 months
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