Taylor Chen
Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Chen is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable backend and platform systems, currently on Stripe's engineering team in the San Francisco Bay Area. A University of Waterloo computer engineering graduate (class of 2019), he has driven reliability-at-scale work on Atlassian's Confluence and Trello backends and developed platform libraries, messaging services, and AWS infrastructure at NerdWallet. His background spans SRE and software engineering — including internships on Apple's CloudKit SRE and Datadog's open-source tooling — giving him deep operational insight into Python, Go, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. Known for turning early-career internships into production impact, he combines hands-on backend library work with large-scale reliability engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate InstituteComputer Engineering, Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
hugo10
coredns10
integrations10
gcp10
monitoring10
dns-record10
route5310
agent10
dd10
documentation10
ingress10
aws10
datadog10
statistics9
external-dns9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
taylor-chen/dd-k8-example
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
taylor-chen/documentation
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
data-managementdatadogdocumentation-site
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