Jacob Taylor CTO and Co-Founder, SugarCRM. Taylor is the leading architect for SugarCRM and defines, manages and develops the core Sugar Suite technology. Taylor has designed Sugar Suite to be one of the most conducive open source application projects for community development and contribution because of it - modular easy to understand architecture and superior coding. He is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM, and has a reputation for engineering excellence. Previous to co-founding SugarCRM, Taylor was the Sr. Development Manager at E.piphany in charge of platform infrastructure and services. Previous to E.piphany, Taylor worked at Symantec Corp. Taylor attained an MS in Computer Science.
Traditional software companies have created a very structured, restricted and
focused engineering department methodology which works efficiently in a
process oriented, proprietary environment. With the rapid popularity of
open source, and flocks of companies abandoning proprietary models to adopt
open source models, evaluation of engineering management and engineering
talent is required. The new rules of engagement within an engineering
organization starts with the ability to share under-developed work with the
outside, interact and solicit product feedback with the community while still
hitting deadlines and deliverables, and honestly communicating what the
product can and can not do.
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Jacob Taylor CTO and Co-Founder, SugarCRM. Taylor is the leading architect for SugarCRM and defines, manages and develops the core Sugar Suite technology. Taylor has designed Sugar Suite to be one of the most conducive open source application projects for community development and contribution because of it - modular easy to understand architecture and superior coding. He is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM, and has a reputation for engineering excellence. Previous to co-founding SugarCRM, Taylor was the Sr. Development Manager at E.piphany in charge of platform infrastructure and services. Previous to E.piphany, Taylor worked at Symantec Corp. Taylor attained an MS in Computer Science.
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