Kamilah Taylor

Kamilah Taylor is a Jamaican software engineer; she is known for advocating for women and people of color in the tech industry.

Early life and education Taylor was born in Jamaica, to parents Ashley Hamilton-Taylor and Delta Taylor. Her parents still reside in Jamaica, where her father is a computer science lecturer at University of the West Indies, and her mother is a teacher at St. Andrew's Prep School. Both of which were magnet schools centered around advanced math and sciences, as well as performing arts. In late 2011, she applied to LinkedIn and joined the company in 2012 as a software engineer. Taylor led the infrastructure and flagship app integrations on the LinkedIn Learning app. In 2017, she was noted as one of Business Insider’s most powerful female engineers in the United States for her work with LinkedIn.

Taylor is a co-author of the book, Women in Tech.