Taylor Clay

About Me

Work

I'm a Software Engineer and attempted indie hacker. I build things. I love business. I'm driven by a pragmatic, product-first mindset: code is always a means to an end, never the end itself. I'm passionate about building software that genuinely solves problems, focusing intensely on user experience, quick iterative delivery, and continuous improvement through A/B testing everything. My workflow is deeply integrated with AI, not just as a tool, but as a core enabler for efficiency and innovation.

Personal

A few things that keep me busy outside work:

Finances: I'm an active trader and saver. I like to stay on top of macroeconomic trends and how they impact the markets.
Education: We're on a homeschooling journey, researching how technology, especially AI, can create more personalized and effective learning paths for my kids.
Sports: I enjoy following NCAA and NFL football or professional golf.

My AI-First Approach

Accelerated Development

Utilizing AI for boilerplate code generation, test stub creation, and preliminary code reviews.

Enhanced Collaboration

Employing AI notetakers for meeting summaries and efficient information synthesis to extract key details and refresh context.

Intelligent Research

Leveraging agentic search for comprehensive web queries and long-form research.

My Professional Journey

Staff Software Engineer at Stitch Fix

Architecting and migrating incentive-driven UI layers with React, Next.js, and GraphQL, leading front-end development on a dynamic growth team, and optimizing client retention through A/B testing.

Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian

Implementing significant web performance enhancements for Confluence, including lazy loading and module deduplication, and actively monitoring/reducing JavaScript bundle sizes.

Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer at Oracle (Cerner)

Leading greenfield project development, defining API contracts, and guiding front-end engineering teams for virtual health surveillance platforms.

Indie Hacking & Side Projects

Ask me about my latest projects!

Building Scalable Web Apps

Expertise in full-stack development using TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres, Redis, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Vercel.

Boosting Online Presence

Implementing effective programmatic SEO strategies to help small businesses rank higher on Google and drive cost-efficient lead generation.

Streamlined Operations

Developing solutions for seamless account, subscription, and payment management (Stripe) for online communities.

AI Image Generation Platforms

Crafting web apps for social sharing of AI-generated images.

Social Media Automation

Developing browser automation tools with Node.js and Puppeteer.

My Tech Stack

Word Soup

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsGraphQLRuby on RailsTailwind CSSHTMLCSSRedux

Testing

React Testing LibraryJestPlaywrightPuppeteer

DevOps & Observability

GitGitHubBitbucketCI/CDCircleCIJenkinsBambooDatadogSplunkNew Relic

Databases & Infrastructure

PostgresNeonSupabaseRedisUpstashVercelCloudflarePrisma / Drizzle ORM

AI / LLM / GenAI

OpenAI - ChatGPTAnthropic - ClaudexAI - GrokGoogle - GeminiWhispr Flow - Speech-to-TextLM Studio - Open Source LLMsZapier - AI WorkflowsFathom - AI Meeting NotesT3 Chat - Multi-LLM Chat

Extensive practical experience across various tools and integrations for development and workflow enhancement.

Software Engineer building AI-first web solutions with React, Next.js, and a business-minded approach.