Taylor Silenzio

Senior Software Engineer Seeking full-time roles

Backend systems and developer tooling, built for the parts of production that have to hold. Lately, more of it in Rust.

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I work a layer below where most people stop looking, in the event-driven pipelines, real-time systems, and internal tooling a team leans on without thinking about it. The tooling is the part I can't leave alone. Hand me a deploy step that takes minutes and I'll turn it into a save-and-refresh loop, or a build everyone quietly works around and I'll keep sanding it down until the path to production feels boring in the best way.

Obstacles tend to make me dig in rather than back off. When a serializer I needed had vanished from the codebase and no one could find it, I wrote one that round-tripped every record in production. When an upload kept failing for no reason anyone could name, I tracked it to a single invisible byte at the front of the file. The parts of a system nobody else volunteered to learn are usually where I end up.

Most of my career has been Node.js and TypeScript backends at scale. At Keller Williams I built data pipelines and saved-search notifications for a platform serving 180K+ agents, plus a white-label product that retired a third-party vendor and cut roughly $2.7M a year. A long run through PHP, Node, TypeScript, and Go is what pulled me toward Rust, where most of my attention goes now, down to the FFI layer. Outside work I run a single-node Proxmox homelab and build small CLIs and TUIs, usually because the tool I wanted didn't exist yet.

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