Taylor Singletary

Current

Technical Evangelist at LinkedIn

Past

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

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Education

Portland State University
San Francisco State University
Rancho Buena Vista High School

Carlsbad High School

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Recommended

2 people have recommended Taylor

Connections

281 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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

Technical Evangelist

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

I'm the community manager and provide developer support for our LinkedIn Developer Network ( http://developer.linkedin.com )

I work closely with partners & developers to implement successful applications for our OpenSocial-based InApps Application Platform, integrate third party sites with the LinkedIn API, and support the Product and Engineering teams at LinkedIn.

My duties include (among other things) writing documentation for all arms of our platform, authoring sample code in Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, & Java, and helping developers of any ilk.

I'm often a Product Manager for our InApps Platform, Company Buzz, Tweets, and SAP Community Bio.
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.
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
Programmer

Conquent

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 2 months)
File Clerk

Fisher & Phillips LLP

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

Filed Legal Briefings, Desktop Support, Reception
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.
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.
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

Portland State University

Liberal Studies 2002 — 2003
San Francisco State University

Creative Writing 1998 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

Wikswo Experimental Creative Writing School, Literary Magazine
Rancho Buena Vista High School

Creative Writing, Theater 1996 — 1998
Carlsbad High School

Additional Information

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