Thomas Taylor - Resume

Experience

Plane

Principal Engineer (Security, DevOps)

May 2025 – Current

Responsible for security and DevOps for Plane's open-source project management software product; running SOC2, security audits, coordinating with vendors
Created and responsible for an airgapped version of the on-prem project management software; 2000+ customer seat/licenses within 6 months

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Founding Engineer

Mar 2023 – April 2025

Founding engineer at cryptocurrency indexing start-up (similar to Dune analytics)
Created platform APIs and services, kubernetes/AWS/terraform infrastructure; contracts indexing 5 chains with P99 100 ms latency from block production to customer consumption
Acquired by Plane (April 2025)

Consultancy

Owner

Apr 2022 – Dec 2023

Client: 0xMacro (May 2022 – Aug 2022) — Taught FAANG engineers Solidity/Ethereum fundamentals and security best practices; High pressure 6 week boot camp setting. Solidity/EVM smart contract auditing for clients
Client: M10 Networks, Inc. (Apr 2022 – Dec 2023) — Start-up incubating a ledger for central bank usage; Worked on 100k transaction/sec CBDC ledger, demo product, CLI tooling

BitGo

Engineering Manager | Senior Blockchain Engineer

Jun 2018 – Jan 2022 Palo Alto, CA

Built 3 teams from the ground up over 2 years in high-impact areas: Ethereum, WBTC and DeFi
Built and responsible for WBTC — a tokenized Bitcoin that went from $0 to $15 billion AUC in 2 years
Expanded/trained contractor team from 5 to 25 to 60 engineers for coins onboarding capacity in 12 months
Created an internal triage model that drove down customer and internal tickets to 20% of volume after 3 months
Proposed and built system for labelling institutional addresses which is now used industry-wide
Notable team achievements: NFT wallet contract creator, on-boarding EIP-1559, re-building internal Ethereum node plumbing and MetaMask Institutional wallet integration, on-boarding coins/tokens into BitGo internal systems

BTIG

Senior Vice President - Technology

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 San Francisco, CA

Team lead for clearing and settlement end of day process team; Mentored junior developers and design for existing and future projects
Expansion, maintenance and creation of Futures OMS, FX and OMS

Beaconfire Red

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – Apr 2017 Arlington, VA

Non-profit website design consultancy working with clients such as Feeding America and American Lung Association
Notable team achievements: Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS Association; rebuilding all of American College of Cardiology training tools; redesign/rebuild of State of the Air app (SOTA)

Education

George Mason University | BS in Computer Science | Graduated 2006

Technologies

Ethereum • Bitcoin • Solidity • AngularJS • Javascript/TypeScript • SQL • NodeJS • React • Mongo • HTML • Linux • C# • Python • GCP • Rust • EKS • Terraform • Kubernetes • Docker • Helm • Phone dev (Native & WebKit)