Taylor Hogan

About Taylor Hogan

I am a passionate, mission-driven, tireless learner obsessed with making things better and easier for everyone. Particularly interested in how we can leverage technology, cooperation, and marketing to improve the health and wellbeing of humans and the natural environment.I build things. Some of my best tools are empathy, diligence, curiosity, research, and a history of success. I\'ve built four full-stack web applications using JavaScript, Python, React, Redux, Flask, Express, PostgreSQL, and other technologies. Right now I\'m learning Typescript, and I\'m not sure what\'s next. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.I’ve also built robust and automated processes of all kinds; continuous feedback engines; subject matter expert networks; sales incentives and the related data inputs, analytics, and reporting; sales distribution networks; four mobile apps (no coding); and four full-stack applications (lots of coding).I’ve recently moved from Boston to San Francisco to join my partner and start something new. I’m eager to join a high-energy, motivated, creative team where I can contribute my skills and energy.

Experience

1. Full Stack Engineer

   Chefables

   Oct 2022 — Present · South San Francisco, CA, US

   Our two-person engineering team develops and maintains a Django/MySQL application used by hundreds of schools around SF and LA to manage the meals we deliver for their students. The system was designed and built by new graduates.· Championed & enforced an engineering culture that celebrates DRY, concise, thoughtfully named, standardized, readable code. · Owned the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of all new features.· Proactively went beyond stated business needs during feature addition to perform a comprehensive overhaul: enhancing maintainability, minimizing code duplication, and improving performance and scalability—ultimately refactoring or eliminating 90% of models, forms, views, and templates.· Pioneered the system\'s first automated testing suite using Selenium, reducing manual testing time by 80%, enhancing software reliability, accelerating bug detection, and streamlining development workflow.· Engineered user-friendly interfaces to empower non-technical experts to manage complex data, facilitating a critical data migration to unlock new software capabilities, including an 80% reduction of data entry.· Leveraged the Django ORM to optimize database queries, reducing query complexity and enhancing application performance, often reducing load times by 70%.

Education

• Northeastern University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  2011 — 2016

• Sea Education Association

  Study Abroad Semester, Nautical Science

  2014 — 2014

• Worcester Academy

  Secondary School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

  2005 — 2011

Skills

• Project Management
• Microsoft Office
• Customer Obsession
• Trello
• Slack
• Qualtrics
• Time Management
• Public Speaking
• Research
• User Experience
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Spss
• Customer Service
• Event Planning
• Marketing
• Autocad
• Iwork
• Social Networking