Chris Taylor
Director at Yorkshire Twist
Kirklees, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Taylor is a seasoned software director with 25+ years of hands-on experience delivering web and cloud solutions across industries, from startups to enterprise. He combines deep full-stack expertise—SPAs, TypeScript, .NET Core, Azure, and a history spanning DHTML/Flash to modern stacks—with strong architecture and DevOps experience. As founder of Yorkshire Twist he provides pragmatic technical consultancy and has repeatedly led modernisation efforts, notably improving frontend performance by 83% on an OpenBanking product and steering large platform rewrites in automotive and finance. He prioritises people and communication as the critical drivers of successful projects, pairing technical leadership with mentoring and practical developer tooling. Based in Kirklees, UK, he brings a rare mix of senior strategic thinking and continued hands-on coding, plus an unexpected background in jazz studies that fuels creative problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Jazz Studies, Bachelor’s Degree, Jazz Studies at Leeds College of MusicHeckmondwike Grammar School
Github Skills (18)
audio-applications8
midi7
juce-application7
audio-effect6
juce6
audiounit6
wordpress6
phonegap6
clap5
vst5
computer-music4
audio4
react4
react-native3
css2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
web-matters/industry-issues
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mattersindustrypublications
yorkshiretwist/WTester
Aug 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 7 months
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