Andy Taylor
Software Development Manager at IBM
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Taylor is a Software Development Manager and middleware specialist with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and shipping high-performance messaging and transaction systems. He has led and contributed to flagship open-source projects—serving as an ActiveMQ committer and driving HornetQ work at Red Hat—bridging enterprise Java EE applications with robust asynchronous messaging architectures. Now at IBM, he combines technical leadership with deep domain expertise in JMS, transactions, and middleware integration to deliver scalable, reliable systems. His background spans product-grade implementations from HP’s message middleware to financial integration platforms, giving him a pragmatic understanding of legacy interoperability and modern clustering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions and for mentoring teams to operationalize complex distributed systems. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he pairs academic training in software engineering with a long track record of open-source stewardship and enterprise impact.
7 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
software engineering, software, software engineering, software at Newcastle University
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
commons10
openshift10
documentation10
dbus9
power-management9
openscap9
watchdog9
selinux9
mechanism9
compliance9
operator8
kubernetes-operator8
security8
daemon8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sheriff-rh/openshift-docs
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
OpenShift Documentation
Contributions:1 PR, 683 pushes, 507 branches in 6 years 2 months
kubernetesopenshift
sheriff-rh/asciisync
Oct 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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