Luke Taylor
Senior Director Of Engineering at Depop
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Taylor is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams across news and consumer marketplaces, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Depop. He combines hands-on technical chops—from Scala and React Native migrations to AWS-driven indexing and high-availability APIs—with a strong track record of mentoring engineers and managers through career progression and organizational growth. Luke has repeatedly delivered time‑sensitive, cross‑disciplinary projects (notably launching the Guardian’s first React Native app and migrating core services to AWS with zero downtime), and he prioritises pragmatic decision‑making that balances delivery velocity with measurable business impact. Based in England, he brings a pragmatic, people‑first approach to engineering leadership and a knack for turning legacy systems into resilient, cloud-native platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of East AngliaLong Road Sixth Form College
German
Github Skills (118)
image-management10
guardian10
client-library10
dynamodb10
jackson9
api9
bakery9
json9
scala9
podcast8
json-api8
thrift7
low-level7
organizer7
control-panel7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/capi-ophan-events-forwarder
Apr 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 18 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 9 months
guardiangenesis
guardian/editors-picks-uploader
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
AWS Lambda to upload editors picks to the Content API.
Contributions:10 PRs, 24 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 10 months
apipicksserverlessaws-lambdaaws
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