Taylor Dumas

Looking for Staff or principal engineer

Minneapolis, MN · remote within the US

Experience

Senior Software Engineer II

2021 → now

Principal Financial Group · architecture, technical discovery and technical leadership

  • Technical lead on large-scale migrations to third-party platforms, across vendors and internal teams; I write the documentation teams implement from.
  • Run the working sessions where engineers, business partners and vendors see the trade-offs and make the call; weekly updates and early risk calls keep surprises small.

DevOps Engineer

2018 → 2021

Principal Financial Group · developer platform

  • Designed, built and maintained a Java/Maven deployment pipeline used by 40+ teams; owned the services behind its automation.

Software Engineer

2016 → 2018

Principal Financial Group · web APIs and transactional applications

  • Full unit, integration and automated acceptance test coverage.
  • On-call; mentoring new team members.

Side projects

As Washburn Willows Media Group, sole owner, outside work

Education

B.S. Computer Science, Drake University

2016