Guy Taylor
Senior Software Engineer at TravelPerk
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGuy Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with 16 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver large-scale distributed systems across web, analytics, ML, image/video and geospatial domains. He has architected and shipped petabyte-scale geo-native street-level imagery and city point clouds to major tech customers, balancing elegant long-term designs with rapid prototyping and pragmatic delivery. His background includes low-latency ad-serving systems at Amazon and hands-on roles spanning backend, DevOps and testing, plus open-source contributions improving Python bindings for GnuCash and build tooling for Google API Rust bindings. As a tech lead he guides projects end-to-end—from requirements with senior management through CI/CD and sunset—while mentoring teams to operate in complex global environments. Outside work he pursues wilderness photography, bringing an observational, field-tested perspective to solving real-world scaling problems.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Software Engineering Informatics, BEng Software Engineering Informatics at The University of EdinburghMadras College, St Andrews
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Github Skills (27)
gnu-make10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
build-system10
makefile10
automation10
api10
automations10
rust10
curl10
swig10
json9
devops9
pytest8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Byron/google-apis-rs
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
A binding and CLI generator for all Google APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 12 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Guy primarily worked on improving the build and generation process for the Google APIs Rust bindings library. They added support for including unlisted APIs and generating the corresponding code. They also refactored the build process to use `curl` for downloading API definitions and implemented JSON file sorting to minimize Git diffs. Furthermore, they introduced pytest for testing and updated the build scripts to run tests within a virtual environment.
clipythoncli-generatorgoogle-apisbinding
Gnucash/gnucash
May 2017 - Mar 2018
GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Guy primarily worked on enhancing the Python bindings for the GnuCash project. They fixed a coredump issue in the Python API related to the `get_namespaces` function and implemented comprehensive testing. Furthermore, the user addressed type conversion issues for `GncNumeric` to allow construction from various numeric types and added a helper method to return native Python fraction types. The user also refactored the code to use built-in SWIG conversions and glib types.
accountingdouble-entry-accountingdoublegnucash
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