About me
I’ve been building things all my life
Today my work focuses on building AI software for tax professionals as CTO at Additive AI.
Previously I was the architect for all Generative AI products within Salesforce Industries. I joined Salesforce in November 2019 via the acquisition of Diffeo, where I was co-founder. Diffeo and the company I’d co-founded prior, Meta Search, were aimed at helping make sense of the world’s information. Throughout, I lead our engineering teams in building machine learning and information retrieval systems to create user experiences that harness information from unstructured content.
I’m also deeply interested in what we can do to carve a path out of the climate crisis. Driving innovation forward is our greatest hope to create the level of monumental change needed to address the threat of climate change.
When I’m not at my computer, you are likely to find me out on a bike or working my way up a rock wall.
My email is “hi” at “ataylor.io”, feel free to reach out!
Experience
Additive AI
Co-Founder, CTO July 2023 - Present
Building superpowers for tax professionals. We’re Hiring!!!
Salesforce
Senior Director, Software Engineering February 2021 - July 2023
Architect for all Industries Generative AI products, building and leveraging EinsteinGPT to create breakthrough products for specific verticals with LLMs.
Lead an expanded team to integrate Diffeo technologies and architect, build, and launch Einstein Relationship Insights as the first customer-facing product on Hyperforce, following on from the acquisition.
Director, Software Engineering November 2019 - February 2021
Diffeo (Acquired by Salesforce)
Co-Founder, VP Engineering September 2016 - November 2019
Diffeo is built around recommender engine using collaborative machine intelligence to solve the challenges of disparate unstructured data. Diffeo provides recommendations in-context with existing user workflows to augment analysts and researchers, uncovering crucial insights and accelerating their work.
Meta (Acquired by Diffeo)
Co-Founder, CTO January 2015 - September 2016
Created a cloud platform bringing the power of a web search engine to a user’s own files. I lead our engineering team to architect and implement web and client applications as well as a scalable IR system, interfacing with user devices and cloud services to provide a single user experience for file search and organization. Built in Go and Python + Swift and JS, deployed on Google Cloud Platform.
Peck
Co-Founder, Engineering Lead Fall 2013 - January 2015
Won the annual Williams College Business Plan Competition and hired a team of 5 to work out of Lever. Lead development of a mobile app for iOS and Android with Ruby on Rails backend. Now live on the iOS App Store. Peck is a social calendaring service for college students providing information and event-based communication.
New Signature
Winter Intern January 2014
Designed a system for knowledge management and intellectual property creation for diagnostic, configurational, and procedural tool sets with goals of internal efficiency and expanded services in the field of IT consulting.
Berkshire Productions
Filmmaker 2007-2014
Founded a filmmaking and videography business with more than 160 jobs for over 40 clients, learning about marketing and content creation, and a wide variety of cinema technologies, hardware, and software.
Williams College Computer Science Department
iOS App Development Spring 2013 - Fall 2013
Created an app, HungryEph, to provide a simpler and more intuitive interface for daily and late night snack bar menus that uses data scraped from the existing online dining resources. Currently in use by Williams students.
Computer Science Teaching Assistant Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant for introductory computer science courses.
Projects
Multi-layer Neural Network in Go
Wrote a neural network implementation from scratch in Go. Read more about it on the blog!
Compiling Interpreter for x86 machine code written in ARM assembly language
Created the fastest interpreter in my Computer Architecture class by compiling translated instructions of the x86 instruction set into mapped sequences of ARM instructions allowing for much faster execution than a standard interpreter.
Replicated Hosting within a P2P Marketplace
Forked the OpenBazaar project in its earliest stages to emulate a hosted site environment within a P2P network. Used a Kademlia distributed hash table to facilitate replicated storage of a user’s site across multiple peers.
Electric Powered Off-Road Vehicle
Hand-fabricated a full-suspension metal frame from raw steel tubing. Designed the power train electronics system, used CAD software to design and fabricate control board, motor mount, and drive train assembly.
Education
Williams College 16'
Majoring in Computer Science and Political Economy
Selected CS Coursework: Distributed Systems, Data Mining, Computer Architecture, Principles of Programming Languages, Mobile App Development, Intro to Cryptography, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision
TA: Intro to Computer Science (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
Extracurriculars
Williams Cycling Club, Williams Sailing Team, Williams Nordic Ski Club, Williams Track Team (freshman year)
Skills
Computer Science: Go, Python, Machine Learning, Natural Language, IR, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, Java, C/C++, Bash, Assembly Language, Distributed Systems, iOS Development, Relational Databases
Other interests: Road and Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing, Amateur Radio, Metalworking and Fabrication, Woodworking, Piano (15 years)