Taylor Sturtz

Senior Software Engineer / Irvine, CA

949-500-3960949-500-3960

taylorsturtz.comtaylorsturtz.com

taylorsturtz@gmail.comtaylorsturtz@gmail.com

Experience

Software Engineer • Blizzard Entertainment
May 2020 - present • Irvine, CA

• Designed and developed internal web tools (using React and TypeScript) that serve Activision's and Blizzard's game titles and impact millions of users.
• Maintained existing systems, including debugging and feature development, concise documentation, prompt live operations support, and major application releases.
• Ensured product quality with collaborative feature planning and code review, as well as thorough unit and scenario testing (using Jest and Selenium/Java).
• Organized recurring front-end focused engineering meetings for improved team cohesion and knowledge distribution.

Software Engineer • Restaurant365
October 2019 - May 2020 • Irvine, CA

• Developed new features (using TypeScript, React, Redux/Saga, and Node.js) and maintained existing codebases (using AngularJS and C#) for accounting software used in more than 12,000 restaurants.
• Set up GitLab CI pipeline to deploy serverless functions to AWS and Azure.
• Improved error-prone legacy code and deployment processes with extensive debugging and documentation updates.
• Greatly improved developer experience by simplifying end-to-end cross-platform local development.

Software Engineer • Ytel
May 2017 - Sept 2019 • Lake Forest, CA

• Led development of React/Redux messaging campaign applications and maintained legacy apps written in PHP Laravel, Vue.js, and AngularJS.
• Built SSO and user management systems using JWTs and GraphQL.
• Developed an interface for plotting and managing interactive nodes in a tree structure (similar to an org chart) on browser canvas.
• Introduced unit-testing to client-side code bases and maintained healthy coverage.
• Wrote GitLab CI and Node.js scripts to improve productivity, performance, and save the company thousands by pruning unused data from external services.

Web Developer • Ytel
March 2017 - May 2017 • Lake Forest, CA

• Wireframed and built static marketing static websites using Jekyll and Firebase Auth/DB.
• Managed DNS, migrated, configured, and maintained web projects on an optimized LEMP stack virtual machine.
• Developed interfaces for office televisions to welcome clients by name visiting the office.

Design Team Lead • MMG INTL
July 2011 - Oct 2016 • Orange, CA

Skills

Awards

Social

Education