Jeff Taylor
About Jeff Taylor
Jeff Taylor is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer currently working at Raydiant in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a background in Engineering Physics from The University of British Columbia and has held various engineering roles in companies such as 3vGeomatics, Rogers Communications, JDSU, and Parallel Domain.
Current Role at Raydiant
Jeff Taylor currently serves as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Raydiant, an Experience Platform, since 2022. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In this role, he applies his extensive knowledge of site reliability engineering to enhance the platform's performance and reliability.
Previous Experience in Site Reliability Engineering
Before joining Raydiant, Jeff Taylor worked at Parallel Domain as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer from 2020 to 2022. His role involved implementing SRE principles across various domains, contributing to the stability and efficiency of systems. Prior to that, he was a DevOps Engineer/SRE at 3vGeomatics from 2015 to 2017, where he also focused on improving system reliability.
Educational Background in Engineering Physics
Jeff Taylor studied at The University of British Columbia, where he earned a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Engineering Physics. His studies spanned from 2009 to 2015, providing him with a strong foundation in engineering principles and technical skills relevant to his career in site reliability engineering.
Early Career in Engineering Co-op Positions
Jeff Taylor began his professional career with co-op positions in the engineering field. He worked at Rogers Communications as a Radio Engineering Co-op in 2011 for three months, and at JDSU as an LTE Engineering Co-op from 2012 to 2013 for 11 months. These experiences contributed to his understanding of engineering applications in telecommunications.
Technical Contributions and Projects
Throughout his career, Jeff Taylor has applied site reliability engineering principles to various technical fields, including low-latency digital signal processing and high-throughput genomics pipelines. Notably, he designed a hyper-parallelized cloud pipeline for the Serratus alignment project, which scaled to approximately 22,500 vCPUs and significantly increased the number of known RNA viruses.