Jordan Taylor
Lead Software Engineer (Contract) at National Crime Agency (NCA)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Taylor is a hands-on tech lead and contract Lead Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience delivering scalable, secure cloud-native systems across startups and regulated enterprises. He blends CTO-level product delivery (taking an MVP to market at Tranquiliti) with deep DevOps and infrastructure expertise—AWS, Terraform, serverless event-driven patterns, containers and Kubernetes—plus API/backend development in Python and Go. A frequent consultant for financial and public-sector organisations (Contino, LSEG, BNP Paribas, NCA), he excels at technical strategy, engineering management and building auditable, production-ready pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins). SC-cleared and experienced in cybersecurity and IaC, he pragmatically balances reliability, compliance and speed of delivery. Notably, he moves fluidly between hands-on implementation and leadership, stepping into code, cloud or architecture depending on what a project needs.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of LincolnA-Level Maths, Physics & Geography, A-Level Maths, Physics & Geography at Retford Post-16 Centre
English
Github Skills (26)
graph10
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
networking9
gcp9
aws9
google-cloud9
terraform-module9
cloud-platform9
infrastructure9
azure8
terragrunt8
hashicorp8
hcl8
infrastructure-as-code8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
contino/terraform-learn
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
A best practice baseline Terraform repository containing Terraform scripts with the ability to deploy both compute and networking infrastructure into AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 3 months
gcpbest-practicegoogle-cloud-platformabilitygoogle-cloud
contino-training/puppet-training-control
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 36 pushes, 29 branches in 2 months
trainingpuppet
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