Summary
Conrad Taylor is a software consultant with 13 years of experience building scalable web applications and distributed systems using Ruby and Elixir, and frameworks like Rails and Phoenix. He has a strong track record delivering end-to-end features—from real-time recommendation and chat microservices to GraphQL layers and LiveView migrations—often modernizing legacy stacks and cloud deployments. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, Cassandra/Scylla, Neo4j) and infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP), he combines backend performance tuning with pragmatic frontend work and iOS prototypes. Conrad mentors engineers and students regularly, translating complex concepts into testable, maintainable code and improving teams’ delivery practices. He’s equally at home refactoring aging Rails apps as he is shipping Elixir LiveView replacements, hinting at a preference for practical, incremental modernization. A math and CS graduate from the University of Illinois, he pairs analytical rigor with a hands-on, systems-oriented approach.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois System
English, German, Japanese