Tamunokipirite Taylor

Fullstack engineer with hands-on experience building and shipping web apps and APIs using React, Node.js/Express, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and Firebase (Firestore/Cloud Functions). Delivered production-facing features including Paystack payments, authentication (JWT/RBAC), and operational automation (SSL issuance via ACME, Bash tooling). Comfortable working end-to-end across UI, backend services, databases, and deployment.

Cloud Engineer Intern at Galaxy Backbone (2024-04 – 2025-01)

• Built a backend API to automate SSL certificate issuance/renewal (Let's Encrypt/ACME), reducing manual provisioning time by ~80%.
• Upgraded production servers from CloudLinux 7 to 9 to improve security posture and lifecycle support.
• Automated log monitoring and disk cleanup with Bash scripting to reduce outage risk from disk-full events.
• Provisioned Linux/Windows servers; optimized storage using LVM to improve maintainability and reliability.
• Configured and managed DNS records for hosted services to ensure domain availability and secure connectivity.

Software Engineer Intern at New Horizons (2022-02 – 2022-06)

• Built a Tkinter-based password generator application to simplify secure password creation.
• Prototyped a budget tracking app with basic visualization.
• Improved problem-solving through consistent Python coding challenges (HackerRank).

Volunteer Tutor at The Catalyst Tutorials (2022-09 – 2023-07)

• Taught C and C++ fundamentals and helped students improve algorithmic thinking and exam performance.

B.S. in Computer Science – Babcock University (2019-08 – 2023-07)