Phil Reynolds
Chief Technology Officer at Tayl
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Reynolds is a pragmatic engineering leader and current CTO based in Swansea with eight years of hands-on experience building and scaling web platforms. He blends full-stack Ruby on Rails expertise with cloud and DevOps practice, having led a cost-saving rewrite at Ryalto that scaled to 50k users while reducing infrastructure spend tenfold. Comfortable both shipping code and growing teams, he has taken teams from 4 to 10 engineers and introduced modern CI/CD, monitoring, and developer tooling. Outside tech he runs a part-time adventure guiding business, which informs his emphasis on clear communication, mentorship, and operational discipline. He’s curious about solving thorny product problems with simple, performant solutions and continues to iterate on ways of working to boost team productivity.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
Github Skills (86)
devise10
user-feedback10
authentication10
ruby10
notification-center10
sidekiq10
html10
spree10
rails10
rails-app10
activemodel10
warden10
turbo9
jruby9
mvc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Legal-Innovation-Lab-Wales/scenario-platform
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
A platform to provide the creation and taking of interactive scenarios with added complexities such as concurrent variables and branching paths for a more engaging experience.
Contributions:41 reviews, 275 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 1 month
branchingrustpathscreationscenario-creator
phil-6/pr_dev
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
philreynolds.dev personal site
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
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