Merlin Taylor
Senior Developer at Trainline
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMerlin Taylor is a Senior Developer based in London with 11 years of software engineering experience and a background in engineering from the University of Cambridge. He specializes in pragmatic, test-driven infrastructure and platform work—recently leading a zero-downtime CDN migration from Akamai to CloudFront and orchestrating a safe, automated repository migration to GitHub Cloud. Comfortable across systems, CI, and VM image tooling, he introduced Packer-driven agent images and automated orchestration to reduce operational risk and toil. Merlin favors functional patterns and immutable value objects, only tuning performance after metric-driven analysis, which reflects his scientific approach to diagnosing production incidents. Colleagues rely on him for investigating obscure failures—from Linux VM memory pathologies to JVM/SSH signature issues—bringing a blend of methodical debugging and automation. He pairs deep technical craft with a continuous improvement mindset, consistently pushing for safer, more comprehensible abstractions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Chemical Engineering, 2.1, Master of Engineering (MEng), Chemical Engineering, 2.1 at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (67)
migrate10
database-design10
npm-pack10
portal10
migration10
npm-run10
database-schema10
dotnet9
zip9
ansible9
sql9
database9
terraform9
db29
publish9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Merlin-Taylor/node-pack-zip
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Run npm pack and convert the output to a .zip file
Contributions:16 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
npm-runnpm-packagejavascriptzipnodejs
Merlin-Taylor/environment-manager
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:215 pushes, 145 branches in 1 year 2 months
reportingdevopsdeploymentself-service-portalansible
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