Technical Evangelist at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Technical Evangelist at LinkedIn
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- Software Engineer at LinkedIn
- Lead Developer at Self Service Systems
- Programmer/Webmaster at Versation
- Programmer at Conquent
- File Clerk at Fisher & Phillips LLP
- Web Developer at the Princeton Review
- Web Developer at Embark.com
- Barista at Notes from Underground Cafe
- Education
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- Portland State University
- San Francisco State University
- Rancho Buena Vista High School
- Carlsbad High School
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Taylor Singletary’s Summary
My interests are varied and my dedication is focused. Over the past several years, I've participated in every level of development in web applications from conception to execution, building quality software with Ruby on Rails including a popular online reservations system (Partywirks), and a successful social network for people abroad learning English as a second language (English, baby!).
After being part of the Light Engineering team bringing you LinkedIn Mobile, I now find myself as LinkedIn's Technical Evangelist-- helping to spread and integrate our fantastic APIs and our OpenSocial implementation.
In my free time I play with analogue synthesizers, write poetry and fiction, play video games, and tinker with reality.
"Look at my hair; like the design. It's the truth!" - David Byrne
Taylor Singletary’s Specialties:
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, REST, AJAX, OpenSocial, Perl, Object-Oriented Programming, rSpec, the internets
Taylor Singletary’s Experience
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Technical Evangelist
LinkedIn
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
I work closely with partners to implement successful applications for our InApps Application Platform, integrate third party sites with our API Service, and support the Product and Engineering teams at LinkedIn.
Duties include writing documentation for OpenSocial, our APIs, authoring sample code in Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, and Java. -
Software Engineer
LinkedIn
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)
As part of the Light Engineering Development team at LinkedIn, I worked with an agile team of Ruby on Rails enthusiasts to build LinkedIn Mobile and LinkedIn Fu, a Ruby plugin for interfacing with the LinkedIn API.
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Lead Developer
Self Service Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Building next-generation on-line reservations business solutions in Ruby on Rails.
Partywirks - http://www.partywirks.com -
Programmer/Webmaster
Versation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Contributed to higher education software products and English, baby! http://www.englishbaby.com
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Programmer
Conquent
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 2 months)
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File Clerk
Fisher & Phillips LLP
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Filed Legal Briefings, Desktop Support, Reception
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Web Developer
the Princeton Review
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Maintained data integration between online college applications and student information databases.
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Web Developer
Embark.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Maintained data integration between online college applications and student information databases.
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Barista
Notes from Underground Cafe
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Restaurants industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Served beverages and food
Hosted Open Mic
Taylor Singletary’s Education
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Portland State University
Liberal Studies 2002 — 2003
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San Francisco State University
Creative Writing 1998 — 2002
- Activities and Societies:
- Wikswo Experimental Creative Writing School, Literary Magazine
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Rancho Buena Vista High School
Creative Writing, Theater 1996 — 1998
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Carlsbad High School
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Taylor Singletary’s Interests:
potentiality, platforms, programming, internet engineering, experimental writing forms, analogue synthesizers, generative art, the way things work, how things can work better, coffee, Richard Brautigan
Taylor Singletary’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- expertise requests
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