Taber Bain
Technical Lead at Nationwide
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaber Bain is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused systems and leading teams through thorny technical decisions. Currently leading Digital Messaging at Nationwide, he architects enterprise paperless services that deliver accurate, cross-platform communication for members and partners. A skilled communicator and empathetic coach, Taber blends hands-on engineering with clear, non-technical translation to help teams move confidently. His background ranges from data journalism—where he won state awards for data-driven storytelling—to curating special collections and exhibits, giving him an unusual mix of analytical rigor and historical, design-minded storytelling. Based in Minneapolis, he’s also a plant enthusiast and serial doodler who brings curiosity and creativity to engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBA, Interdisciplinary Social Science / History, BA, Interdisciplinary Social Science / History at James Madison University
French, Hebrew
Github Skills (12)
twitter6
scala6
obsolete6
google-streetview5
deprecated5
grapheme5
hebrew5
database3
unicode2
javascript2
python2
abc2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
taber/everylotbot-rva
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Twitter bot that posts Street Views of a database of parcels in Richmond VA
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 6 months
databasetwitter
taber/scribetoy
May 2020 - Jul 2023
Tool to ease Hebrew writing practice by unjumbling texts
Contributions:11 PRs, 38 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 2 months
hebrewtexts
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