Tim Taylor
Software Development Intern at Microsoft
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolTim Taylor is a software engineer with nine years of experience focused on backend development and cloud-connected IoT systems. Currently a Software Development Intern in Columbus, he has contributed to high-profile Azure SDKs and IoT repositories—improving exception handling, DPS symmetric key support, AMQP transport, and Digital Twins APIs—demonstrating strong API design and transport-layer expertise. His Microsoft internship work included cross-platform mobile prototyping with Xamarin, Azure AD authentication bindings, and building BI application connectivity, showing a blend of cloud, mobile, and integration skills. Earlier roles added project management and enterprise tooling experience with SharePoint, Oracle, and SQL at Eaton. Tim combines hands-on coding across C#, Java, and AMQP with a practical focus on robustness and usability in distributed systems. He’s comfortable navigating low-level messaging nuance and developer-facing API choices that make SDKs easier and safer to use.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering, Senior at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-java
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
A Java SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 releases, 1332 reviews, 974 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tim implemented features and fixed bugs related to AMQP module client communication with edgehub and iothub. They added code to enable and configure the handling of messages and to ensure proper operation in different scenarios. The changes primarily involved modifying and testing code related to message handling, session management, and error handling within the AMQP transport layer of the IoT device client library. The contributions are focused on the low-level implementation of message exchange over AMQP.
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Azure/azure-iot-sdk-csharp
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1240 reviews, 219 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the Microsoft Azure IoT Device SDK for C#, focusing on improving the exception handling and error management within the SDK. Their work included making critical exceptions public, which indicates a focus on API design and usability. They also added support for DPS symmetric key and reprovisioning for DPS, which involved changes to the API versions and various transport layers. Furthermore, the user refactored parts of the AMQP transport handler.
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