Founder
Taliaferro Tech
Founded the studio after launching Beecon, a cross-platform social app, and now builds, maintains and ships apps and websites for clients and for the studio.
Alex Taliaferro
Founder of Taliaferro Tech. Developer, team lead, product owner, and the person who answers your email.
Alex spent six years at GEICO, moving from writing .NET code to leading the teams that wrote it. He shipped features, ran infrastructure, owned a product backlog and coached developers.
Then he left to build his own things. Beecon, a social app for spontaneous hangouts, went from idea to the App Store and Google Play with Alex as its only developer and designer. Wizards Quoridor and Anime Panel followed. Taliaferro Tech grew out of that: the same care, offered to other people's ideas, and to apps that need someone to take them over.
He is also a working actor, producer and writer, which turns out to be useful when the job is understanding what an audience needs.
The record
July 2025 – now
July 2022 – now
Producer, actor and writer
HBO, Netflix, Snapchat, Adobe and more
Creative work in entertainment and media production.
Dec 2019 – June 2022
Developer Lead
GEICO
Led a full-stack .NET team of 5–8 developers supporting and expanding the onboarding system for more than a million new customers, across more than 50 sets of state and territory regulations, without a single failed compliance audit. Coached junior developers and reviewed every change before it shipped.
Feb 2019 – Nov 2019
Infrastructure Lead
GEICO
Led a team of seven engineers maintaining GEICO's big-data stores and pipelines, and launched its first Hadoop distributed file system. Stood up cross-coast redundancy for the claims system, recognised with an internal award for innovation.
June 2017 – Jan 2019
Leadership in IT rotational program
GEICO
Six months each as an analyst writing product requirements, as product owner prioritising the GEICO mobile app, and as Scrum Master for the sales application.
Feb 2016 – May 2017
Full-stack .NET developer
GEICO
Built and tested features in a TDD, Agile Scrum workflow, tuned workflows for high-traffic events like storm claims, and rewrote COBOL claims features in C# and .NET.
Dec 2015
BA, Business Economics, minor in Computer Science
UC Riverside
Chaired the Student Service Fee Advisory Committee, allocating $22M a year, and taught supplemental sessions in economics, computer science and math.
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Certified Scrum Master
- French, fluent; Spanish, conversational