Taylor Leese - Distributed Systems & Platform Infrastructure
Possessing extensive experience in distributed systems and platform infrastructure, Taylor Leese served as Sr. Director, Grid Storage and Streams, with LinkedIn. Based in San Francisco, he managed their blob and data lake storage, Kafka and Northguard messaging systems, and a set of data storage primitives that includes shard and quota management. Taylor Leese is also involved in venture capital and private equity investment as a founder and partner with Milos Ventures, and as a limited partner with Irregular Expressions.
Mr. Leese’s professional background includes an engineering manager role with StackMob. He guided the backend engineering team, which was responsible for delivering services that enabled mobile developers to seamlessly build, deploy, and expand applications. He successfully managed the engineering team's integration when PayPal acquired the company.
Mr. Leese has also served as a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he wrote software responsible for the physical security systems responsible for protecting America’s stockpile of nuclear weapons at various Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DoD) facilities. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of San Francisco and an MS in computer science at the University of Chicago.
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Possessing extensive experience in distributed systems and platform infrastructure, Taylor Leese served as Sr. Director, Grid Storage and Streams, with LinkedIn. Based in San Francisco, he managed their blob and data lake storage, Kafka and Northguard messaging systems, and a set of data storage primitives that includes shard and quota management. Taylor Leese is also involved in venture capital and private equity investment as a founder and partner with Milos Ventures, and as a limited partner with Irregular Expressions.
Mr. Leese’s professional background includes an engineering manager role with StackMob. He guided the backend engineering team, which was responsible for delivering services that enabled mobile developers to seamlessly build, deploy, and expand applications. He successfully managed the engineering team's integration when PayPal acquired the company.
Mr. Leese has also served as a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he wrote software responsible for the physical security systems responsible for protecting America’s stockpile of nuclear weapons at various Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DoD) facilities. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of San Francisco and an MS in computer science at the University of Chicago.
Taylor Leese on Wordpress
Taylor Leese's Homepage
Taylor Leese on LinkedIn
