PERSONAL INFORMATION

Taylor Brunson



New York, NY 10006

github.com/tlmorgen // tlmorgen.github.io


WORK EXPERIENCE


October 2018 – Present

Software Engineer

Goldman Sachs, New York (United States)

Senior server-side developer with focus on event-driven websocket microservices and dependency inversion (Vert.x, Spring Boot).
Designed and developed "affinity" routing for stable per-user downstream load balancing with global per-datacenter automatic fail-over and fail-back.
Dramatically uplifted existing codebase with Prometheus instrumentation and alerting with backing Grafana dashboards.
Designed and developed ontological configuration deployment, which only affects processes across global fleet for which material changes occurred, and simple process scaling and placement.
Assisted in the design and rollout of server-side scrolling infrastructure for large tabular datasets.


May 2013 – October 2018

Technical Architect

Fidessa corporation, New York (United States)

Primary focus on cross-team project design and execution as well as globally shared low-level infrastructure.
Fully designed and implemented generic, extensible InfoSec library shared by all sell-side software. World-wide rollout underway presently with no impact to performance.
Contributed to the design and fully implemented patent-pending Split and Borrow algorithm (US15587607) for the asynchronous maintenance of global risk limits.
Designed and managed the company's first cloud infrastructure installation (AWS), including monolith containerization (docker), internet-based cross datacenter connectivity and firewalling, and minimal footprint cost curve for machine types allowing functionality cost comparison to the existing datacenter.
Responsible for department-wide management of engineer activities, competitions, outings, feedback sessions, and intern program design and execution.

May 2007 – April 2013

Systems Specialist

Fidessa corporation, New York (United States)

Worked on architecture team to design high-level features which affect the US customer base.
Designed and developed event-driven multi-step hierarchical automation and testing suite.
Lead teams of 2-4 to configure and deploy hosted software, including design and development of customer specific requirements.


Sept 2012 – Apr 2013

Special Deployment – Team Lead Developer

Fidessa limited, Hong Kong

Individually chosen to be seconded to the Hong Kong office. Successfully engineered company's first instance of remote code execution DMZ for algorithmic trading.


June 2011 – Jan 2012

Special Deployment – Developer

Fidessa K.K., Tokyo (Japan)

Individually chosen to be seconded to the Tokyo office. Successfully designed and developed new paper ticket auditing system which was able to cope with 10 times the load of its predecessor. Fully on-boarded, with customization, local developers to automated regression testing suite developed in NYC.


EDUCATION AND TRAINING


January 2003 – May 2007

Bachelor of Science


Vanderbilt University, Nashville (United States)

Major in Computer Science
Major in Mathematics
Minor in Psychology


PERSONAL SKILLS



Communication skills

Strong focus on team cohesion and collaborative development.
Rapidly adaptable to new teams and locales having worked in 4 locations worldwide with a dozen teams.
Expert in inter-office and remote collaboration with global workforce.
Experienced with customer facing technical requirements gathering.
Adept at public speaking, having given company-wide presentations on technology.


Organizational / managerial skills

Responsible for teams of 2-4 people as well as departmental steering.
Lead project inception, design, and completion timelines and staffing.


Computer skills

C++, Java (Maven), C#; Terraform, Containerization; Git, Gitlab, Perforce; Open-API, REST/Websockets, HTML/CSS, JS/JQuery/Node; SQL, Mongo, GraphQL; Intellij, Eclipse.
Full time work in both Unix (Linux, Solaris) and Windows.