Pete Taylour
Software Engineer at Universal Quantum
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Taylour is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems, currently applying his skills to quantum computing at Universal Quantum from Brighton. He has a strong backend pedigree from roles at Slite and Klydo, where he architected scalable services, data pipelines and DevOps automation across AWS, DynamoDB, Postgres and GraphQL while also shipping user-facing TypeScript React apps. At the BBC he led R&D projects that pushed web-based video processing and high-scale trends services, and he’s contributed to notable open-source work such as the BBC’s VideoContext WebGL video composition project. Pete pairs a physics MSci (First) with practical product focus—comfortable moving between low-level research prototypes and production engineering—and brings a clear emphasis on maintainability, developer experience and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
John Masefield High SchoolMSci, Physics, First, MSci, Physics, First at University of Bristol
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
software-quality10
testing9
html7
html5-video5
360-video5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/VideoContext
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
An experimental HTML5 & WebGL video composition and rendering API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 270 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the codebase by running `eslint --fix` on the integration tests. They made changes to JavaScript files, specifically within the test directory, indicating a focus on testing and code style improvements. The user also updated and rebuilt the documentation, along with performing dist updates, suggesting involvement in the development and deployment process of the project.
apicompositionhtml5-videowebglcanvas
bbc/visualise-videocontext
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Library to visualise a VideoContext graph
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
rd-section-apmmvideocontextvideographrd-project
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