Taylor Johnson

Independent engineering & research project

• Built a typed repository-analysis instrument in Flix with Grit extraction and bounded Datalog queries; separated semantic policy from narrow Java/native interfaces and pinned the Bazel/Nix build.
• Designed reproducible localization and review evaluations with gold-free prediction inputs, frozen receipts, exact memoization, and shared Bazel artifacts; integrated BuildBuddy remote caching and execution.
• Measured scheduling and replay costs: historical AttuneFlix offline evaluation preserved results across 61 JS/TS cases while reducing 4,301 seconds of sequential shard work to 51.7 seconds of cold remote wall time; exact replay made no new provider calls.
• Built an installable agent-tool contract pipeline using DeepSeek Harness and Typert, rejecting unsupported schemas; validated transport/tool boundaries alongside semantic laws, renderer checks, and six README examples regenerated from real extraction.

Coding-agent search evaluation harness

• Built a Go/Pkl experiment surface and Python evaluation harness to compare coding-agent search strategies using typed tasks, scoring models, backend adapters, and reproducible run bundles.
• Recorded search quality, token usage, cost, and classified failures so candidate strategies can be compared against a baseline with inspectable evidence.

Security & Infrastructure Documentation Intern

• Investigated and documented a production HPC platform, tracing OIDC, JWT, and LDAP identity flows through Apache modules, Nginx per-user processes, and Lua authentication hooks.
• Built a Docker reproduction of the authentication stack to debug behavior without privileged production access; investigated configuration layers and security-sensitive URL handling.
• Turned authentication and infrastructure findings into reproducible debugging procedures and documentation for onboarding and platform maintenance.

Frontend Engineer

• Built React/Recoil state coordination for real-time electric-grid incident analysis, synchronizing multiple relay data feeds for reliability-sensitive operator interfaces.
• Extended Chart.js with draggable temporal annotations and implemented COMTRADE relay-data processing for electrical disturbance analysis.
• Integrated dynamic windowed diagnostic layouts with react-mosaic, keeping timing, state consistency, and debugging clarity central to the interface.

Programming Instructor

• Taught Python, JavaScript, React, and computer science concepts to students ages 10–16; helped students debug programs and development environments through hands-on instruction.