Taylor is known for his carefully-written security tools, including a side-channel-free password generator and a cryptography library for PHP. He regularly contributes to a number of open source projects by security auditing and reviewing source code. As a recent graduate of the University of Calgary, his research is focused on exploit defense mechanisms and side-channel attacks. In his spare time, he enjoys studying physics from a computer science perspective and is an organizer of the Underhanded Crypto Contest.