Taylor Hogge
Summary
I am a full-stack software engineer with extensive back-end and front-end development experience. I am currently employed full-time but may consider work on a contractual basis through irreducible.io — my personal LLC, depending on the project.
Education
Work History
I am currently employed full-time at Swell — working on scaling the platform up to meet the demand of the market.
- Technologies: React, Typescript, Node.js, Postgres, AWS
Irreducible Software is primarily a vehicle for my personal projects and open source work. I take on contract work for clients to fund their development.
- Technologies: Rust, Typescript, WebAssembly, React, Node.js, AWS, GCP, Postgres, Firebase
- Have a look at my dev blog
I joined Airin prerevenue as employee number three. I helped build the technology that got the company near $10M in ARR.
- Technologies: Typescript, Angular, Node.js, MySQL, Firebase, GCP, RxJS
- Worked in a full-stack context — primarily owned the "back of the front-end"
- Designed, and developed an interpreter for, a custom domain specific language that powered Airin's knowledge engine.
- Developed a Salesforce package that integrated directly with Airin's product. Involved the back-end implementation of a custom OAuth grant type as defined by Salesforce in RFC-7523
- Reported weekly to non-technical company executives summarizing completed work with business impact in plain english.
While I was pursuing my degree at the University of Utah, I interned on campus developing internal web apps for various departments.
- Technologies: Java, MySQL, AngularJS, Typescript
Personal Projects
Some interesting things that I have built outside of work:
- Developed a mobile game for Android in Java when I was in high school.
- Used Unity to Develop an augmented reality game, in 48 hours, for Google Cardboard as part of a university-sponsored hackathon. Awarded a $1000 prize.
- A Brainfuck interpreter
- A Rust crate that can compute sunrise/sunset times based on a GPS coordinate.
- Developed an augmented reality iOS app using Apple's ARKit that lets museums create AR exhibits for my senior project.
Interests
Entrepreneurship, Startups, UI/UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Computing, Cybernetics, Artificial Life, Generative Art, Compilers/Interpreters, Models of Computation, Mathematics, Logic, Deductive Databases, Distributed Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms, Parallel Programming, WebAssembly, Rock Climbing, Weight Lifting, Backpacking...