Professional Journey

Career Timeline

Taliaferro Technologies
July 2025 - Present

Founder

Taliaferro Technologies

Founded software consultancy following successful launch of Beecon, a cross-platform social networking app. Currently managing portfolio of 2 mobile applications and 4 responsive websites, delivering full-stack solutions from concept to deployment.

July 2022 - Present

Producer, Actor, & Writer

HBO, Netflix, Snapchat, Adobe, + more

Creative professional work in entertainment and media production.

GEICO
Dec 2019 - June 2022

Developer Lead

GEICO

Led full stack .NET team of 5-8 developers in supporting & expanding the onboarding system for 1M+ new customers in accordance with over 50 different sets of state/territory specific regulations w/o a single failed compliance audit. Provided technical expertise and coaching to junior developers + reviewed code before it was pushed.

GEICO
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

Infrastructure Lead

GEICO

Led team of 7 engineers in maintaining the Big Data stores and pipelines for all of GEICO + launched first Hadoop DFS. Stood up cross-coast redundancy infrastructure for our claims system allowing zero downtown migration in case of natural disaster or other emergency.

GEICO
June 2017 - Jan 2019

Leadership in IT Rotational Program

GEICO

6 months as an analyst writing and communicating product requirements. 6 months as a product owner prioritizing features in the GEICO mobile app. 6 months as a Scrum Master assigning work to developers and removing blockers.

GEICO
Feb 2016 - May 2017

Full Stack .NET Developer

GEICO

Worked within the TDD Agile SCRUM workflow to Story Point, complete, and test User Stories & bug fixes. Optimized application workflows for better scalability during high traffic scenarios. Rewrote entire features of the Claims system running on COBOL into C# / .NET as part of a modernization effort.

UC Riverside
Dec 2015

BA in Business Economics - Minor in Computer Science

UC Riverside

Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics with a minor in Computer Science.

Leadership & Teaching Roles

Sept 2014 - June 2015
Student Service Fee Advisory Committee Chair

Oversaw allocation of $22M in Student Service Fees yearly. Led meetings, assigned applications, consolidated recommendations.

Sept 2012 - Dec 2015
Supplemental Instructor

Taught classes of 10-30 students who wanted extra help with Micro + Macroeconomics, Computer Science, and Math.

Skills & Expertise

Back-end

.NetC#C++DartPythonSQLNoSQLMongoDBHadoopAWSEmbedded Systems (x86)

Front-end

FlutterTypeScriptNode.jsReactHTML/CSS

Tools & SDC

SplunkDynatraceJIRAMSTFSharepointMS Office

Creative Tools

FCPXPremierePhotoshopIllustrator

Languages

French (Fluent)Spanish (Conversational)

Certifications

Six Sigma Green BeltCertified Scrum Master

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