Dave Taylor
Contract Software Engineer, Technical Lead at Pogo Kid
Bradford-on-Avon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDave Taylor is a contract software engineer and technical lead with 16 years of hands-on experience and over 20 years of industry involvement delivering front-end architecture and performant user experiences for clients from startups to global brands like Jaguar, Land Rover and Lloyd’s of London. He specializes in JavaScript and TypeScript, React/Next.js, CSS/HTML and state management, and brings practical expertise in cloud and edge optimisation to squeeze latency and cost out of production systems. Comfortable in client-facing roles, he translates complex technical choices into jargon-free advice and has repeatedly been trusted to steer projects and mentor teams. His background spans building serverless APIs, orchestrating Kubernetes and Azure deployments, and leading engineering through acquisitions and major platform modernisations. He combines a design-educated sensibility with deep engineering craft—often acting as the linchpin between product, design and backend teams to turn ambitious UX goals into robust deliverables. Based in Bradford-on-Avon, he thrives on getting stuck in to shape direction while keeping laser focus on the user experience.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at University of the Arts London
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (156)
scroll10
typescript-definitions10
cordova-plugin10
mouse10
javascript10
animation10
apache-cordova10
typescript10
scroller10
dts10
scrolling10
sitecore10
smooth10
tilt10
type-check9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davetayls/juxtapo
Dec 2009 - Jul 2011
Contributions:178 commits in 1 year 6 months
davetayls/exploring-fp-ts-series
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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