Xavier Cameron Taylor

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Engineering Manager, UnitedHealth Group - PCI DSS · Kafka · gRPC

UnitedHealth Group
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
University of Florida
English
Open to work
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Overview

10 years in software engineering, the last 1 at UnitedHealth Group, where I lead the payments platform team. Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 32% in two quarters. Before that: Nvidia and Tesla. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in payments infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about payments infrastructure
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers
Skills
JavaKafkagRPCmodel servingGoPCI DSS
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Backend Engineer in media, New York or hybrid

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Healthtech, Logistics
Work mode
Remote
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the NY
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead payments infrastructure work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Crypto

10 years in payments infrastructure. Strongest at Java and model serving. Serving notice now.

New York, NY · remote OKgogrpcpci dss
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2025 - Present
    UnitedHealth Group · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 594ms to 146ms.
    • Moved 71% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 38 a week to 1.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Mar 2023 - May 2025
    Nvidia · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Took payment success rates from 94.9% to 98.5%.
    • Moved 75% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
    Tesla · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Led the migration of 39 services to Kafka.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 6 million transactions a day.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
    Johnson & Johnson · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Took payment success rates from 92.8% to 96.5%.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
    Ford · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 33% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. University of Florida
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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