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David Taylor
SVP Engineering at Molekule
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Summary
Proven thought leader delivering high value and innovative consumer products for the IoT space as well as software as a service (Saas) on time with impressive organizational agility. This includes deep learning, dev ops, data sciences, cloud backends, mobile apps, and embedded firmware development,
Achievements:
Wahoo Fitness is a connected (WiFi/Bluetooth/Cloud) hardware/ software Company delivering real world engaging experiences for indoor and outdoor triathalon training. The KickR Family of products we delivered (on wheel bike trainers/our own bike) deliver the most realistic experience integrated with 3rd party software and our own proprietary apps. Also delivered new watch on Free RTOS form the ground up integrated with our bike computers/apps. Scaled the company from 25M to 150M in 2 years growing the Software and Hardware Engineering Teams at scale.
Sonos is the first connected speaker company that built a foundation of hardware/software connected through the internet resulting in faster delivery of great features and speed to market. This included a proprietary ioT connected web socket tiers, integrated firmware and updates capabilities, Android/iOS apps, and a successful developer program. Successfully took Sonos from an 80 person 40M a year company to 1.2B and 1400 person company including delivery of new great products including the Play3, Playbar, Sub, Play5 and integrated Music Partners. Also implemented scalable agile and org frameworks that proved to be very successful. Successfully grew TurboTax Online from a 30M a year product to 3.2B growing the team and technology out to scale to > 300M concurrent users never losing one bit of customer data. Page 1 of 5
Specialties: IoT, firmware/systems software, mobile apps, large scale SaaS services, 3rd party content integrations, Data science and services, scrum/agile software development, and creating superior products that scale across a myriad of devices
Experience
Molekule
SVP Engineering
July 2021 - Present (6 months)
San Francisco, California, United States
Leading a talented group of engineers at Molekule ensuring everyone at home and work have clean air. Responsible for iOT, Data, Firmware, Cloud, Machine Learning, and all supporting infra/systems development ensuring Molekule can scale Organizationally and Globally using our patented PECO technology that not only filters airborne particles but destroys them including Covid!
CloudCheckr
VP Engineering
July 2020 - July 2021 (1 year 1 month)
Leading great team of Software and Quality engineers building out the best tools to enable MSPs and Enterprises to manager their Cloud(s). Successfully led company to an acquisition in 6 months Wahoo Fitness
VP of Engineering Hardware and Software
October 2017 - June 2020 (2 years 9 months)
Greater Atlanta Area
Leader of an amazing team of engineers at Wahoo Fitness. We are changing the way people workout and train for elite athletes and having a great time doing it. Responsible for all Software Development (Cloud, Mobile Apps, Devices, Trainers, and Integrated 3rd party services) as well as Hardware Development delivering Kickrs, Bike, Watch and Bike Computers. Grew Revenue from 25M to 150M in 2 years as well as building a scalable rapid delivery organization that scales leveraging Agile methodologies Sonos, Inc.
Sr. Director Software Engineering
April 2011 - May 2017 (6 years 2 months)
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Sr. Director for software development in a rapidly growing consumer electronics segment. Responsible for growing organization and managing all aspects of software development across online, device, and mobile products. Responsible for the Sonos platform and partner API integration teams to support the developer program including all APIs, new platform capabilities, and access to Sonos systems from anywhere securely. Sonos is the Internet of Things (IoT) before there was such a term, we created smart software and hardware that gets better over time and lasts.
We have built a great software team and rapid development approach from a small group of amazing developers to > 80 engineers and integrated our work streams to be cross disciplined and deliver an amazing product roadmap. While at Sonos we have shipped Play:1, Playbar, Play:3, Playsub, and new Play:5 as well as new applications across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows platforms. This has been the highest growth period ever for Sonos under my leadership.
Built out all software development practices in agile/scrum using atlassian/jira/ confluence toolset.
Intuit
Director, TurboTax Online
January 2005 - April 2011 (6 years 4 months)
Develop next generation applications and tax solutions for consumers. We took a small team who believed in online tax prep and made it the highest saas services in the country/world with high netpromoter scores. Built out the teams and processes to ensure we have a rapid pipeline of delivery to our customers and that teams are empowered to be great with exciting career paths.
Built out technology roadmaps for a team of > 200 engineers and worked to improve availability and always on operations to never lose any customer data.
Built out the largest Saas service in the world supporting millions of tax filers concurrently with a great experiece
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Worked closely with Sr. VP and C-level executives to ensure we met our business goals and we built the best organization possible Microsoft
Sr. Development Manager, Microsoft CRM and Visual Studio SDKs March 1997 - March 2005 (8 years 1 month)
redmond, wa
Started as lead engineer grew to development manager shipping V1,V2 products. Still very active in development and building apps on other platforms as well as Windows. Built out core platforms and tools for MSN, bCentral, and .net
We built out the core MSCRM team and technology and i was the second hire for that now 400+ organization. We delivered a technology and set of products that delight customers and work on desktop and in the cloud. This was an exciting journey that has resulted in another MSFT flagship product Motorola
Sr. Manager, SW Engineering
July 1995 - March 1997 (1 year 9 months)
Phoenix, Arizona Area
Led all software development efforts for large scale solutions that were classified. Built out core architecture for internet based next generation developer tools, platforms, and mobile apps.
Built out team and technology with early agile processes that allowed multiple groups to reuse code/services.
Disney
Sr. Developer
February 1992 - July 1995 (3 years 6 months)
Developed applications for the theme parks that supported a better customer experience. Delivered several new capabilities to theme parks as well as home video solutions to make the Disney experience awesome. Solutions were built on windows and mobile devices using web technologies and device tracking enabling systems to track and recommend the best places to be and at the right time. Fastpass was an outcome of this work that allowed more predictable routing of people and time to manage flows of heavy traffic.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation is now Orbital ATK!
Software Developer
January 1990 - January 1992 (2 years 1 month)
Pomona, ca
Worked on hardware composition monitoring software working to ensure Astronaut life support systems were ready for ISS. Worked on assembly and Ada code for the composition monitoring state transitions to sample air quality and to deliver code to Boeing.
Learned a ton about hardware and software communications and and lower os loader code.
Did some small work on the TOMS space system and Hubble telescope Education
Florida State University
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science · (1985 - 1989) Page 5 of 5