Kamilah Taylor

Kamilah Taylor is software engineer, writer, speaker, and has worked in mobile and robotics. She is currently a senior software engineer at LinkedIn, where she’s been a tech lead on multiple projects on both LinkedIn Learning and the flagship LinkedIn app, was one of the early members of LinkedIn’s mobile team, and has done several tech talks on iOS and swift development. She also studied artificial intelligence at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and worked in robotics at Wolfram Research. Kamilah is a public speaker, and is a founding catalyst and founding advisory board member of Tech Beach Retreat, a new tech conference held in Jamaica. She was named as one of Business Insider's 43 most powerful women in tech in 2017. In her free time she tries to keep practicing piano, eat at all the restaurants in the Bay Area, get through her 300+ reading list, and generally watches too many tv shows.