Colin Taylor
Fractional CTO, Software Coach & Technology Adviser at Colt Consulting
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Taylor is a seasoned software leader and Fractional CTO based in Auckland with 14 years of experience building SaaS, cloud and big data systems and leading high-performing teams. He has hands-on experience across AI, information security and scalable analytics platforms, having led development and product engineering at SMX where he built a world-class email, analytics and archiving cloud. As founder of a successful ecommerce consultancy that was later acquired, he blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with deep technical craftsmanship and a track record of taking platforms from custom builds to production-grade services. Now advising multiple organizations, he focuses on translating strategic goals into secure, data-driven architectures while coaching teams to improve delivery and operational resilience.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), Computer Science, BSc(Hons), Computer Science at University of Auckland
Github Skills (126)
reagent10
re-frame10
react10
clojurescript10
plot9
clojure9
s-expressions9
vega-lite8
wrapping8
linter8
expressions8
vega8
graalvm-native-image8
asynchronous8
java-client8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coltnz/defm
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 5 months
SMX-LTD/ccm-clj
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 84 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
cassandraclusterstestingarbitrarykubernetes
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