Allen Taylor
Lead Software Developer at CHECK24 Vergleichsportal GmbH
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolAllen Taylor is a Lead Software Developer based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining back-end systems across e-commerce, telecom, and comparison-portal domains. He progressed from internships to leadership at CHECK24, where he advanced through developer and senior roles into technical leadership since 2022, bringing deep expertise in PHP, Java, MySQL and API design. His career highlights include large-scale API and customer-portal work at DE-CIX and mission-critical e-commerce platform development, with a consistent emphasis on testability and maintainability. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends legacy system migrations and custom frameworks with modern search and integration tooling like ElasticSearch. Quietly ambitious, he often takes ownership of cross-team features and quality improvements that reduce operational toil while accelerating delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Applied Science AmsterdamWeb Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Grafisch Lyceum Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (30)
shift10
ccc10
php9
chaos9
planning9
audio8
phpunit8
music-streaming7
laravel7
philips-hue7
music7
streaming7
unity3d6
hue6
vue6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
allentje/engelsystem
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Shift planning system for chaos events.
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
chaosplanningeventsshift
allentje/tic-tac-toe
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
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