Manager, Capacity Engineering & Analysis at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Manager, Capacity Engineering & Analysis at Facebook
- Past
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- System Architect/Director of Operations at BlueMountain.com
- Systems Programmer at Connectnet
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Vanderbilt University
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Jason Taylor’s Experience
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Manager, Capacity Engineering & Analysis
Facebook
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (8 months)
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Systems Architect
Facebook
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2009 — May 2009 (5 months)
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CTO
ink2
(Privately Held; Printing industry)
September 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 5 months)
ink2 is a venture funded consumer website, CardStore.com, and white-label print provider for Snapfish, Photoworks, Kodak Gallery, Papyrus, Hallmark and American Greetings. Responsible for technical strategy, tactics, and operations.
• Launched new integrations with Hallmark, American Greetings, and Papyrus.
• Upgraded engineering team within six months.
• Modernized the technology, and delivered on 30x increases in volume during the holiday seasons.
• In first year, expanded capabilities and scaled existing production environment. Resulted in banner holiday season with 50% year-over-year increase in card volume, 25 new products, and a sustained peak of 240,000 printed cards shipped per day.
• Relaunched CardStore.com as a web 2.0 site with a new AJAX card personalization and print rendering engine. The CardStore platform has become the focus of ink2’s business. -
Founder
Lucidity, Inc.
(Internet industry)
September 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 5 months)
Lucidity was a white-label gift certificate platform with user-transparent integrations. Partnered with: Borders, Lands End, KBKids, Beautyscene.com, ChipShot, Ebags, Greatcoffee.com, Great-Food.com, HealthShop, Illuminations, Miadora, Magazines.com, Danschocolates.com, Ivendor.com. Responsible for all aspects of technology and product delivery.
• Hired and organized technical teams in San Francisco and New York within two months.
• Launched eCommerce website capable of handling heavy traffic from one of the most popular websites in four months. -
System Architect/Director of Operations
BlueMountain.com
(Entertainment industry)
March 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 10 months)
BlueMountain.com was the first popular electronic greeting card website. Responsible for every aspect of scaling and operations.
• Hired and led the engineering team.
• Architected and deployed scalable groups of servers to two primary datacenters consiting of 200 servers each.
• Delivered 100% uptime and excellent performance that resulted in 7 to 10 times annual traffic growth.
• In December of 1999 BlueMountain.com was the 7th most popular website on the Internet, serving 14 million visitors that month.
• BlueMountain.com was acquired by Excite@Home in October of 1999 for $780m. At that time, our fully loaded cost per 1000 page views was 1/10th the average Excite@Home service. -
Systems Programmer
Connectnet
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1995 — January 1999 (3 years 9 months)
Jason Taylor’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD , Quantum Computers and Ultrafast Lasers , 2000 — 2006
Thesis: Molecular Optimization of Ultrafast Laser Dynamics
• Regularly presented to industry sponsors and delivered biannual talks focused on business implications for new technologies developed at the Lab.
• Contributed to the development of a cheap physical authentication token–published in Science.
• Helped build ThinkCycle, a web-based open collaborative design project focused on problems in the developing world.
• PhD work focused on the triplet-states of molecules for use in scaling Quantum Computers and controlling inter-cavity dynamics of ultrafast lasers. -
Vanderbilt University
BE , Electrical Engineering, Physics, Math , 1995 — 1999
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