Simone Simone Taylor

Overview

I've spent 13 years on payments infrastructure - first at Airbnb, now at Elmstead Consulting. Shipped 26 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback. Before that: Intel and Chewy.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2025 - Present
   Elmstead Consulting · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Sit on 5 boards.
   • Led or co-led 20 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Staff Backend Engineer

   Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
   Intel · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 45% in two quarters.
   • Took payment success rates from 91.5% to 96.9%.
3. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2021 - Jul 2023
   Chewy · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 5.
4. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
   Stripe · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Shipped 18 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
   • Led the migration of 15 services to Kafka.
5. Backend Engineer

   Feb 2015 - Sep 2018
   Airbnb · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 26% in two quarters.

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Education

1. Rhode Island School of Design

   BFA, Electronics and Communication
   2009 - 2013