Taylor Hogge
Summary
I am a passionate software engineer with extensive back-end and front-end development experience on the Web. I have deep technical expertise with WebAssembly runtimes and am currently looking to transition into a systems-level engineering role.
Work History
I am currently employed full-time at Swell. I work at all levels of the stack on their reputation management platform.
- Technologies: React, Typescript, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes
- Identified and remediated multiple high-impact security vulnerabilities in both their frontend React codebase and a legacy PHP backend.
- Authored technical proposals to align team on implementation strategies.
- Participated in rotating on-call schedule to respond to production outages.
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
Education
Personal Projects
Semblance is a WebAssembly interpreter that I wrote from scratch in C in order to learn about the WebAssembly Core Specification in depth. You can read about my experience implementing this project on my dev blog.
- Technologies: C, WebAssembly
Open Source Contributions
I'm currently working to get up to speed on Wasmtime internals in order to get involved with the Bytecode Alliance. Here's a couple pull requests I've authored:
- Technologies: Rust, WebAssembly
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10057
- Add Pulley support to the
#[wasmtime_test]
macro
Interests
WebAssembly, Compilers, Language Runtimes, Entrepreneurship, Open Source Software, Technical Writing.