Kamilah Taylor

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn | Co-author of Women In Tech Book

Technology / Software / Internet

My happy place is solving impactful problems. I love dreaming up and engineering cool products that can transform millions of lives worldwide. Currently a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn (working mostly in mobile), previously at Wolfram Research. As a grad student, I thought about scenarios in which we deny a robot powerful sensors like GPS, and found non conventional sensors that give less information but still allow it to do something useful. These days, while working on iOS applications, I think about what tools the world's professionals need, and how to make the existing ones better. Working in the mobile space is an opportunity to be intimately connected to the end user and to w...