Kyle
Taylor.

I’ve been curious about how things work for as long as I can remember — taking apart electronics I wasn’t supposed to, writing scripts to automate things that probably didn’t need automating. That instinct is still the throughline; it just found better tools along the way.

I studied Information Technology at the University of North Texas, and spent my first few years out of school as a Drupal developer at LevelTen Interactive. I wrote up enough of what I learned that a Packt Publishing editor reached out about turning one of those posts into a short technical book — Instant jQuery Masonry How-to (2013). Around the same time, a UNT capstone project on live public-transit tracking pulled me into Denton’s startup community, which is where most of the non-work stuff below comes from.

From there I moved from building software to helping other people evaluate and adopt it — first as a Solutions Architect at FFW, then as a Sales Engineer at Pantheon Platform, where I was later promoted to Principal Sales Engineer and named Sales Engineer of the Year twice (2020 and 2021). Since 2024 I’ve been a Senior Sales Engineer at Datadog.

Outside of that, I’ve been President of TechMill Denton — a local tech nonprofit — since 2018. It’s currently in a holding pattern rather than actively running events, but the entity’s still around in case we bring it back. Most of what doesn’t fit into a job title lives here in the Lab: experiments, hardware, and AI projects I build because I’m curious, not because anyone asked.

"Shipping beats perfecting. Documentation beats memory. Open beats closed."

— The rules I try to follow