Taylor Dorsett

Taylor Dorsett

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Engineer II at Home Chef | Technical Podcast Host @ youtube.com/TaylorDorsett
United States

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  • Home Chef
    Software Engineer II
    Home Chef
    Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 7 months)
    - Rebuilding home page, which serves over 3 million customers per month
    - Building critical partnership pages for Home Chef partners like AAA, USAA, Rachael Ray, and American Express. Rachel Ray campaign resulted in 45 million in additional revenue
    - Building onboarding funnel with the goal of increasing mobile signups. Funnel built in React.js, previously built in Rails views with HAML, CoffeeScript, and tailwinds. The new onboarding funnel increased mobile conversations by 13%, mobile conversations surpassed desktop conversions for the first time in company history, and mobile funnel contributed an additional 5 million in revenue.
    - Member of Interview Action Squad, which revamped our interview process
    - Front End Gui
  • Levels.fyi
    Consultant
    Levels.fyi
    Apr 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year 3 months)
  • O
    Tech Coach
    Outco Inc.
    Jan 2022 - Current (4 years 10 months)
    Helping engineers prepare for their job search and interviews.

    Summary of Role:
    - Leading classes preparing engineers on topics like Recursion, Dynamic Programming, Linked Lists, Matrixes, System Design, and Graphs.
  • Levels.fyi
    Engineering
    Levels.fyi
    Feb 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 3 months)
    - Built location based homepage company generation algorithm which is used by every levels.fyi visitor
    - Worked on improvements for highly popular internship salary product

    JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, AWS
  • A
    Tech Lead
    Actualize Coding Bootcamp & Apprenticeship
    Jan 2021 - Current (5 years 10 months)
    Tech Lead at Actualize Coding Bootcamp & Apprenticeship

    Still teaching early-career engineers how to get their first job. Using JavaScript and Ruby on Rails.

    Summary of Role:
    - Performing mock technical interviews in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript with recent Bootcamp graduates to prepare them for their job search
  • Open Source
    Software Engineer | Technical Podcast Host
    Open Source
    Jan 2020 - Current (6 years 10 months)
    Check out my GitHub: https://github.com/TaylorOD
    Check out my website: taylorod.github.io
    Technical Interview Video Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/taylordorsett/

    Currently working on:
    • Building ReachOutt.com with Vue.js, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails
    • A large scale open source project based in Chicago to
  • A
    Web Developer
    Ancilla Partners, Inc.
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year 1 month)
    Ancilla Partners helps bring transformative ideas in healthcare IT to life. We excel at designing software and websites that people find easy to use.

    Summary of Role:
    • Working on JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, and Mobile projects for Healthcare and software clients.
    • Helped to implement feature and bug report templates which reduced the amount of time required to complete client projects
    • Helped onboard new hires
    • Organized company-wide team bonding events
  • project44
    Talent Consultant (via Talent Solvers)
    project44
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)
    Talent Consultant (via Talent Solvers) at project44

    As an onsite talent consultant, I worked on several roles for project44, including:

    Engineering Manager
    VP of Engineering
    Director of InfoSec
    Senior Backend Engineer (Java)
    Senior JavaScript Engineer
    DevOps Engineer (AWS moving to GCP with Kubernetes)
  • Talent Solvers
    Director of the Chicago Branch - Head of Technical Recruiting & R4R
    Talent Solvers
    Jan 2019 - Oct 2020 (1 year 10 months)
    Director of the Chicago Branch - Head of Technical Recruiting & R4R at Talent Solvers

    Led the recruiting office.

    Awards:
    #1 revenue generator/biller in the company - 2019
    Generated 100K in Revenue in 7 days - 2019
    Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies - 2019
    WeWork Member Spotlight Selection - 2019
  • J
    Technical Recruiting Manager
    JW Michaels & Co.
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year 1 month)
    Technical Recruiting Manager at JW Michaels & Co.

    Sat next to the person who led the recruiting office.

    Awards:
    Office Pull Up Champion - 2018
    Atlantic City Incentive Trip Qualifier - 2018
    #2 revenue generator in the Chicago office behind only the Senior Vice President - 2018
  • A
    Director of Career Management
    Actualize Coding Bootcamp & Apprenticeship
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)
    Director of Career Management at Actualize Coding Bootcamp & Apprenticeship

    Taught early-career engineers how to get their first job.

    Summary of Role:
    • Assist in internal recruiting efforts and strategy
    • Coach students and alumni on all related job placement efforts
    • Manage all beard growing related efforts for the Career Management Department
    • Develop relationships with companies, hiring managers, and potential hiring partners to facilitate introductions to our graduates
    • Provide ongoing career support and referrals for our alumni that landed a position and are looking for their next position one to two years out of the program
    • Manage the job placement process for all current A
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  • Anderson University
    Anderson University (SC)
    Anderson University
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2014 (4 years 1 month)
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    • Scholastic
      Guinness World Records - Amazing School Records
      Scholastic
      Jan 2005
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