Matthew Taylor-williams
Senior Manager Data Engineering
North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Taylor-williams is a Senior Manager of Data Engineering with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and data platforms across retail and travel tech. He has led cloud data infrastructure, architecture and governance at companies like trivago and Expedia Group and now drives data engineering at Asda, blending hands-on development with strategic team leadership. Matthew’s background spans technical lead and principal engineering roles, giving him a rare mix of deep engineering craftsmanship and practical operational expertise. He focuses on infrastructure, scalability and software engineering at scale, turning complex data problems into reliable, production-ready systems. Based in North Tyneside, he combines enterprise-grade delivery with a pragmatic startup mindset honed at SamKnows and moo.com. Colleagues know him for translating platform strategy into measurable improvements in reliability and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Hons Information Systems and Computer Science, Bsc Hons Information Systems and Computer Science at Newcastle University
Stackoverflow
53reputation
2kreached
4answers
3questions
Github Skills (21)
symfony-bundle10
bundle10
php10
symfony10
php-framework9
elasticsearch6
zooming6
curl6
backend6
http6
jquery6
regex6
java6
zend-framework6
mysql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SamKnows/backend-engineering-test
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Technical test for the software engineer (PHP Backend) position.
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 months
php-backendpositiontestingphpbackend
SamKnows/data-engineering-test
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Technical test for data engineering positions
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 14 days
datawarehousepythonemrdata-engineeringspark
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