Graham Taylor
Director Head Of Emerging Tech & Innovation Applied Innovation Exchange
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Taylor is a London-based technology leader with 13 years’ experience driving cloud-native platforms, emerging tech and innovation at Capgemini, where he heads the Applied Innovation Exchange. He blends hands-on DevOps and platform engineering expertise—evident from open-source contributions to projects like a Puppet Consul module and Capgemini’s Apollo cloud-native platform—with strategic oversight of AI, immersive tech, IoT, blockchain and digital experiences. Graham has a track record of scaling complex Drupal and cloud systems, leading cross-disciplinary teams and embedding automation and CI/CD practices into large programmes. Equally comfortable co-creating with startups and enterprise clients, he focuses on turning emerging technologies into practical products, services and business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Computing, Computing, Applied Computing, Computing at University of Dundee
English
Github Skills (20)
puppeteer10
docker10
puppet-bolt10
configuration-management10
rspec10
dockers10
terraform10
terraformer10
consul10
coreos10
cicd9
puppet9
ansible9
aws9
devops9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Capgemini/Apollo
Mar 2015 - May 2016
:rocket: An open-source platform for cloud native applications based on Apache Mesos and Docker.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 459 commits, 246 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Graham primarily focused on infrastructure automation and configuration within the `capgemini/apollo` repository. They made significant changes to the build and deployment scripts for various components like Mesos, Consul, Marathon and Docker, specifically involving packaging the core software components. The user also added AWS builder and integration with Atlas, indicating a focus on cloud infrastructure. Several commits also modified the testing and build process by integrating serverspec tests.
containerscloud-native-applicationsnative-applicationsdockerapache
voxpupuli/puppet-consul
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
A Puppet Module to Manage Consul
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Graham primarily contributed to the Puppet module for Consul by fixing bugs related to Puppet versions and improving the module's functionality. They added support for managing services, watches, and checks through Hiera. The contributions also involved updating testing to include more assertions, refactoring, and resolving merge conflicts to maintain module integrity and compatibility.
windows-puppet-modulepuppetpuppet-modulelinux-puppet-moduleconsul
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