Tajh Taylor

Tajh L. Taylor is the Special Advisor to the Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation. Tajh leads teams in machine learning, research & decision science, and data platform engineering, as well as others supporting staff and volunteer developers working on MediaWiki, a free and open source server-based wiki software application, as well as other Foundation software applications.

Prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Tajh served as Chief Technology Officer at Catalist, a progressive data utility focused on voter registration and participation analytics. Tajh currently serves on the advisory board of the media research lab Harmony Labs, whose Narrative Observatory project researches understanding and reaching different types of public audiences.

In over twenty five years of experience across various industry fields,  Tajh has overseen transformational efforts to engineer and re-engineer systems that process voter registration and participation data, collect and distribute satellite weather imaging, track cancer research data, and verify ASIC circuit design, among many other application areas.

In his spare time, Tajh enjoys playing jazz and classical piano, making barbecue, and trading random facts of nature with his kids. 

Tajh holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Morehouse College, a Master of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration from the R. H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.