Joe Taylor
Principal Data Engineer
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Taylor is a Principal Data Engineer based in Frankfurt with nine years of experience building cloud-native data products and teams for the aviation industry. He combines hands-on engineering—from Python microservices and PySpark pipelines to Power BI reporting and Vue frontends—with product ownership and agile leadership, having doubled engineering headcount through a selective recruitment programme. At zeroG he led a business-planning application for airline network planners, owning everything from Figma prototypes to AKS/Terraform infrastructure and CI/CD. He’s known for coaching engineers and data scientists on performance, clean architecture and DevOps practices, and for introducing Holacracy-style governance to scale a self-managing company. His background in operational research and business analytics gives him a rare fluency in turning complex statistical models into production BI and decisioning tools for commercial impact.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Mathematics (M.Math) Mathematics, Master of Mathematics (M.Math) Mathematics at The University of ManchesterMaster of Science (MSc) Business Analytics and Consulting, Master of Science (MSc) Business Analytics and Consulting at University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Github Skills (197)
fastapi10
operation10
json-schema10
python10
airbyte10
swagger10
metadata10
etl10
mlops10
asgi10
orchestration10
pydantic10
k8s10
openapi10
async10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zerogjoe/knowledge-repo
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:50 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
scientistsnext-generationdata-scienceknowledgesharing
jetavator/wysdom
May 2020 - May 2021
A Python library for building custom document object models (DOMs) with built-in JSON schema checking
Contributions:15 releases, 50 PRs, 87 pushes in 11 months
python-librarypythoncheckingbuilt-injson-schema
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