Eli A. Taylor

eli@taylormadetraffic.com808-855-5665

For over twenty years, I've shipped secure software on time and on budget, while keeping a fun work environment along the way. I've built enterprise systems from scratch, and scaled inherited codebases that arrived with no documentation, long before AI could bail anyone out. I'm a leader who still shows up for grunt work, QA, and release gates, and a veteran developer genuinely excited about modern AI tools while staying grounded in experience that actually ships.

I run concurrent contracts with full client transparency, honor every NDA, and carry LinkedIn recommendations that speak to my work ethic, execution, and technical skill.

Navigate the technology tags on this site to search my experience by your needs, and reach out if you feel I can help.

FieldWorks

August, 2023 - Present
Full Stack Engineer
Washington DC
Part time - remote.

FieldWorks APIs

November, 2023 ~ Present
API for Web App Dashboard for scheduling, dispatching and tracking campaigns
  • Maintained Django APIs and MySQL db powering up to 100 write requests / second (+ EventBridge triggers after insert) - when hundreds of offline apps resync at once; with worker pool via Lambda auto-scaling. Images uploaded to S3 synchronously with 3 staggered retries.
  • Built a server-side pipeline that turns campaign form templates into on-device redaction descriptors (SIFT keypoints + field geometry), so canvassers’ phones can redact PII and verify fields are filled out.
  • Optimized SQL queries and aggregation endpoints for analytics dashboard, doubling data output while maintaining speed and adding search filters.
  • Centralized logging through Firebase and wrote BigQuery monitoring to compare with SQL data for integrity and usage.

FWCanvass

November, 2023 ~ Present
Web App Dashboard for scheduling, dispatching and tracking campaigns
  • Developed real-time canvasser tracking interface with MapBox and ReactJS, synchronizing map pins/popups and sidebar elements for seamless navigation. Programmed filter operations to recenter map boundaries with dynamic debounce based on filter in use. Built map to render any combination of layers including points for canvassers, lines for routes, and polygons for coverage area.
  • Enhanced SASS implementation with mixins and reusable style patterns. Created modular components styled from a single classname styling, as well as composable utility classes to normalize spacing and typography while maintaining DRY principles and reducing CSS bloat.
  • Restructured Redux implementation to flattening deeply nested data structures, enabling targeted updates and reducing component render cycles across decoupled components.
  • Wrote responsive Data Grid component to render tables using Flexbox with hooks to customize any header or body cell's styles and click / hover events. Supported both client or server side sorting, pagination, and toggling visibility of any column. Wrote NodeJS script to preprocess API response schemas to ease client side table and list displays with custom property names and easier data aggregations baesd on data types (numeric, dates, enums).

Started: 2023-11-01

Industries: Analytics, Language, Marketing

Team: Alex Gibson: CTO. E.A.Taylor: FrontEnd Web Application

Companies/Brands: FieldWorks

Electrek

August, 2023 ~ Present
Canvassing mobile API and Web App Dashboard for scheduling, dispatching and tracking campaigns for dispatching and tracking in-person canvass and survey collections.
  • Built offline-first iOS and Android apps for 1200 canvassers nationwide to run Site and Door to Door campaigns following scripted intake forms.
  • Shipped a C++ OpenCV native module (iOS + Android) that registers camera photos to the form, redacts PII fields, validates required signatures via ink detection based on pre-trained differentiation threshold - all before upload, entirely clientside, offline.
  • Built components for background audio recording, live voter lookup registration, QR / barcode / document scanning, signatures and more.
  • Battery / Memory Optimization: tuned background location tracking around device speed / distance, improved Redux state management to reduce render cycles, merged dependencies to reduce APK size by 67%

Match Bear

August, 2025 - Present
Co-Founding Lead Engineer
Oakland
Part time - hybrid. CA

MatchBear.ai

August, 2025 ~ Present
Match Bear (matchbear.ai) is an AI job-market companion: conversational search that goes beyond keyword matching to surface roles aligned with your strengths, goals, and story - so you spend less time on listings that do not fit.
  • Designed AI orchestration pipelines that classify intent, gather context, trigger synchronous and asynchronous LLM/retrieval calls, and stream results over a single persistent connection via event-based messaging.
  • Built secure and seamless guest-to-user conversion: anonymous chat history and uploads persist into the registered account when a visitor signs up.
  • Delivered a CMS with QA and annotation tools to review application flows, empowering non-technical team members to QA, annotate LLM responses, and monitor token usage per chat intents.
  • Supported team vibe-coders to turn prototypes into production-ready features.

Strong Mind Strong Performance

December, 2025 - Present
Lead Full Stack Engineer
Oakland
Part time - hybrid. CA

StrongMindStrongPerformance.com

December, 2025 ~ Present
Strong Mind Strong Performance is a coaching and consulting company that helps individuals and organizations improve their performance and achieve their goals.
  • Led QA team in coordination with Behavior Scientist, UX designer, advisors and CEO to bring COPPA compliant vision for AI-assisted coaching to life.
  • Built multi-tenant auth layer supporting SMS, SSO, email, OTP, & backend batch team imports; with CORS / CSP rules, & strict RBAC permissions on all content, all isolated per org subdomain.
  • Designed centralized entitlements system connecting Stripe payments to each step of a 12-week course.
  • Integrated Azure Cognitive Services for live voice assessment and lesson facilitation; OpenAI with server-side content orchestration.
  • Observability & product analytics: Instrumented client and server with PostHog so feature usage and funnels are measurable in production.
  • Supported iOS, Android and web with ReactJS, Material-UI, ReCharts & Flutter / DART to handle Deep Links, SafeArea, Push Notifications and OAuth login from native social app sessions.
  • Automated end-to-end regression coverage with Playwright, producing videos with close captioning to publish as part of system health page.

Started: 2025-12-01

Industries: Coaching, Consulting, Education, Health, SaaS

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, QA Leadership. Sean Valentine: CEO. Kyjeila Latimer Ph.D: Behavior Scientist. Cathy Barragan: Lead brand Marketing and Internal Operations Consultant. Scott Hanselman: Tech Development Advisor. Chioma Ayoko: Quality Assurance Engineer. Gabriel Da Dilva: Quality Assurance Engineer

Companies/Brands: Strong Mind Strong Performance

Flexible Assembly Systems

December, 2017 - January, 2025
Full Stack Engineer
San Diego
Part time - hybrid. California

Flexible Vision

May, 2018 ~ January, 2025
A SASS platform for streamlining annotations and iterative computer vision training

AI Annotation Interface & APIs

  • Created custom Node-Red modules for configuring cameras and communication with on-prem tools and cloud APIs.
  • Implemented API for motion detection using Structural Similarity, to expose 19 OpenCV filter options to training interface, to manage photo training data and find tagging anomalies.
  • Built entire front-end annotation tool with zooming, version controls, infinite class nesting.

Workstation Guidance

  • Developed workstation guidance system for factories to configure assembly instructions with QA and computer vision assistance, dockerized to deploy across a local network of factory computers.
  • Built bi-directional persistent secure WebSocket connection for constant communication with Node-Red service and FlexibleVision as a whole.

Refined Motion at Tesla Motors

December, 2017 ~ April, 2018
Automating safety and efficiency along the Tesla assembly line
  • Programmed torque and resistance probes to measure bolts only when in position with visual cues for operator to follow testing steps
  • Created AngularJS app and custom node-red modules for smoother synchronization with robot arm over secure websockets to manage, configure and validate jobs, track work assembly performance, and request work station servicing.

Cypher LLC

April, 2017 - December, 2023
Director of Development & Engineering
Leesburg
Full time - remote. Virginia

Ghost Platform

April, 2025 ~ August, 2025
Ghost Platform (ghostplatform.ai) is a RAG chatbot that assists security analysts with research and investigations around classified knowledge bases, deployable in cloud, on-prem, and airgapped SCIF environments.
  • Built API and scripts to generate embeddings of knowledge base - txt, pdf, ppt, docx - common questions, and user prompts.
  • Built Docker orchestration of 6 containers to run in dev, cloud and onprem environments including behind airgapped SCIF networks.

Started: 2025-04-01

Launched/Lasted: 2025-08-01

Industries: Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End. Ben Ogden: Front-End, Back-End. John Izquierdo: CTO. Joseph Anderson: CEO.

Companies/Brands: Cypher LLC

Cosmo

March, 2021 ~ December, 2023
A cyber threat intelligence platform for threat and vulnerability analysis, investigations, testing, and mitigation
  • Designed advanced penetration tests in order to generate training data and formulate IoC Patterns based on signatures seen in logs.
  • Forked OpenCTI as interface to control ingestion, triage alerts and fine tune inference engine analysis.
  • Wrote Ingestion system to run log / email imports at any interval with encryption in transit and at rest, supporting configs for data retention and shareability policies.
  • Implemented deduplication and aggregation of Email data by maintaining checksum IDs on EML parts and its whole.
  • Built Puppeteer crawler to ingest client websites and learn URL patterns & HTML semantics for additional training data and monitoring standards.
  • Drafted all system Data Flow Diagrams for both architectural documentation and patent application.
  • Wrote Docker containers and CI/CD pipeline from GitHub Actions to GCP.

WBAT

April, 2020 ~ August, 2022
Safety reporting tools for the aviation industry. Available in the App Store & Google Play
  • Engineered mobile application with React Native, using React Navigation and Redux, to support preloading form schemas, queue form submissions, and manage system synchronization with and without an internet connection.
  • Flattened Redux data to enable selective updates, minimizing unnecessary renders and improving performance across loosely coupled components.
  • Built synchronous test suite for end-to-end API testing as any user.
  • Created sophisticated data reporting and visualization dashboard leveraging Google Chart API for real-time operational insights.

FLC

August, 2017 ~ January, 2020
Promoting, Educating, and Facilitating Knowledge Transfer
  • Migrated data from Solr server into Drupal CMS for streamlined content management while maintaining the Solr API functionality with optimized index updates from adds, edits and deletes.
  • Wrote duplicate reducer to compare nodes by measuring the similarity of common fields across sources. Used Levenshtein Distance algorithm and took action based on threshold configurations.
  • Rebuilt new Solr indexes with Drupal's Search API to respect CMS revisions and publish settings.
  • Developed front-end full-text search tools for global site search and FLCBusiness, implementing facet counts for enhanced filtering.
  • Built custom in-page editorial tools accessible based on Drupal Roles using Node Access Hooks.
  • Integrated CAS Authentication System for unified login capabilities between FLC sites.
  • Rebuilt custom theme with Bootstrap to improve overall site responsiveness, scalability, and ARIA compliance.
  • Developed CRON jobs to automate the import of licensable technologies from all NASA labs and other federally subsidized entities.
  • Upgraded Google Map integration to automatically update Map results alongside listed search results.

Started: 2017-08-01

Launched/Lasted: 2020-01-01

Industries: Technology, Marketing, Events, Analytics

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End, API. Joseph Anderson: Cypher CEO. Denise Wainer: UTRS Director of Communications. Will Dyson: UTRS System Administrator, Release

Companies/Brands: Federal Labs Consortium, Cypher LLC, UTRS

Taylor Made Traffic

January, 2002 - July, 2024
Technical Director
San Francisco
California

Objects/Actions

March, 2024 ~ May, 2024
An open source tool for helping entrepreneurs document their projects, and scaffold their systems.
  • Scripted OpenAI agent to recommend database schema for any idea, return both reasoning and a structured JSON output.
  • Wrote utilities to parse Types spreadsheet and auto-generate React forms, Django app, fake data generator, Cypress.io tests, Swagger documentation and centralized data definitions to follow.
  • Wrote tools to parse RBAC permissions matrix spreadsheet and produce strict TypeScript definitions and access control functions and Cypress.io tests.
  • Wrote gcloud build scripts to stand up complete GCP environments based on shared .env variables.

PickupMVP Backend

April, 2022 ~ April, 2023
Developed a scalable backend and AI-powered video analysis platform for PickupMVP.com in App Store & Google Play
  • Annotated dataset and trained YOLOv4 model for detecting 6 classes across different sports.
  • Designed all business logic for tracking the clip's subject, athlete, and ball.
  • Wrote video annotation tool for ongoing additions to dataset.
  • Built video effect automation with ffmpeg and scikit using YOLO and DeepSort.
  • Streamlined complete deployment pipeline with Bash and gcloud to GCP.
  • Extended Track Authority Music platform and API to connect all rating and reward services.

Started: 2022-04-01

Launched/Lasted: 2023-04-01

Industries: Music, Sports, Events

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, Business Development

Companies/Brands: Taylor Made Traffic, Track Authority Music

TrackAuthorityMusic.com

January, 2020 ~ January, 2021
A platform for building gamified groups and applications with rewards for engagement
  • Led team of 3 - UX designer, data scientist and data entry / annotators.
  • Wrote abstract form builder to give Drupal CMS control of form layouts and fields based on CRUD operation.
  • Wrote Cypress.io Test Suite using TypeScript and NodeJS to generate unique end-to-end tests for each brand, across 3 device sizes, incorporating ffmpeg scripts to crop and repurpose recordings into site demo videos.
  • Built CI/CD pipeline to automate testing, committing, and deployments.
  • Designed and copy wrote entire application, icons and logo, sometimes in California, sometimes abroad.
  • Wrote Firebase Hosting functions to inject metadata and a canonical url for SEO previews of SPA pages.
  • Built Flutter webview wrapper with javascript handlers for native integrations around Deep Links, toggling SafeArea, navigating from Push Notifications and OAuth login from Google and Facebook app sessions. The codebase supports multiple branding and App IDs, configurable through .env variables.

Started: 2020-01-01

Launched/Lasted: 2021-01-01

Industries: Music, Events, Gaming

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, Business Development

Companies/Brands: Taylor Made Traffic, Track Authority Music

Quiz Kit

May, 2024 ~ June, 2024
A tool to automate testing and comparing ChatGPT responses based on variations in prompts and configurations
  • Supported the Presideo Creative agency to complete their product recommendation engine.
  • Built tool to test performance and recommendations of different use cases, comparing OpenAI models and methods - embeddings, Completions, and Assistants - preserving responses back to prompts and configs for fine-tuning.
  • Created front-end visualization table to filter, sort, compare, and annotate results.
  • Wrote python scripts to pre-generate embeddings from internal product lists