Kieran Taylor
InvestorFounderCo-Founder at Midship · Executive at Optro
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedMidship · YC
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About
Kieran Taylor previously worked at Deloitte, Amazon, and Instacart. He is a co-founder of Midship, an AI platform for SOX testing.
Co-Founder at MidshipYC S24
Intro paths
Kieran went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Midship's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Experience
- OptroVice Presidentcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- MidshipCo-Founder / CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- DashworksFounding Engineer2023 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
- InstacartSenior Software Engineer II2021 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- AmazonSoftware Engineer2020 — 2021Seattle, Washington, United States
- JETSWEATSoftware Engineer2020New York City Metropolitan Area
- DeloitteSoftware Engineer2017 — 2019London, United Kingdom
- Stackhouse PolandSoftware Engineer2016 — 2017Guildford, United Kingdom
- LinkedInIntern2016London, United Kingdom
Skills & more
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Community OutreachKubernetesData PipelinesREST APIsFlutterMicrosoft ExcelSQLVisual Basic for Applications (VBA)PythonBlockchainHadoopAmazon Web Services (AWS)Languages English · Mandarin
- Functional Programming Principles in Scala — EPFL
- Statistics with Python Specialization — University of Michigan
- Amazon Web Services Big Data Specialty — Amazon
- Algorithms Specialization — Stanford University
- GCP Professional Data Engineer — Google
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kieran Taylor?
- Kieran Taylor previously worked at Deloitte, Amazon, and Instacart. He is a co-founder of Midship, an AI platform for SOX testing.
- Where does Kieran Taylor work?
- Kieran Taylor is Co-Founder of Midship.
- What companies did Kieran Taylor found?
- Kieran Taylor founded Midship.
- What companies has Kieran Taylor invested in?
- Investments tracked here include Spaceium Inc.
- Where did Kieran Taylor go to school?
- Kieran Taylor studied at Cornell University (Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science); Y Combinator; The University of Manchester (BSc Biology (Hons) with Industrial Experience, Biology).
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