Luke Taylor
Staff Software Engineer at The Economist
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Taylor is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years’ experience specializing in mobile platforms, currently shaping mobile products at The Economist after a long tenure building customer-facing apps for utilities like First Utility, Shell Energy Retail and Utility Warehouse. He blends deep hands-on expertise in React Native, native iOS/Android (Swift/Java) and supporting infrastructure with strong full‑stack and DevOps knowledge, enabling end-to-end delivery in agile environments. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, he translates complex business domain nuances into pragmatic technical solutions and champions developer experience. His background working for regulated, customer-centric utilities has honed a focus on reliability, stakeholder collaboration and measurable impact on retention and growth. Notably, his career began in bespoke web and mobile development at a small agency and includes an unusual early chapter as a funded elite athlete, which informs his disciplined, performance-driven approach.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC in Web Development, BTEC in Web Development at North West Kent CollegeChellaston AcademyBTEC in Software Development, BTEC in Software Development at Derby CollegeBTEC in Design, BTEC in Design at New College NottinghamChellaston Sixth Form
Github Skills (97)
actionsheet10
iconic10
movie10
dotenv10
webapp10
moments10
react-native-config10
environment-variables10
splashscreen10
bottom-app-bar10
graphql10
create-react-app10
react10
javascript9
markdown9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lmcjt37/squidly
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:66 commits in 8 months
lmcjt37/kulor-reactify
Nov 2016 - Oct 2019
Colour convertor written using node and react
Contributions:205 commits, 70 PRs, 135 pushes in 2 years 11 months
convertorreactnodejscolourkulor-reactify
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