Phil Taylor
Founder at Blue Flame Digital Solutions Limited
St Helier, Jersey
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPhil Taylor is a founder and senior full-stack PHP developer with 13+ years building award-winning SaaS platforms, high-availability web services and white-labelled solutions for agencies and global organisations. Based in St Helier, Jersey, he combines hands-on PHP architecture, DevOps/sysops and incident forensics with deep expertise in web and data security—having led vulnerability investigations for government and major enterprises and been shortlisted for a Jersey Tech Award. He routinely operates as the technical escalation for agencies, delivering scalable transaction-heavy systems (payments, postcode lookup services) and ongoing retained support for Linux infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, Phil has improved tooling and docs across projects such as DigitalOcean’s tugboat, Symfony bundles and Joomla CMS, often fixing subtle cross-platform and security issues. Comfortable working under NDA or in white-label engagements, he pairs meticulous attention to detail with pragmatic engineering to protect personal data and keep services resilient. Outside software he brings discipline from earlier maritime and volunteer lifeboat roles, reflecting practical leadership under pressure.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PPL, CPL, FI, PPL, CPL, FI at Aeros Flight TrainingCentral Technology CollegeHND Nautical Studies, HND Nautical Studies at South Tyneside Nautical College
Github Skills (25)
cli10
debug10
mysql10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
webpack10
ruby10
doc10
php10
configuration-file10
webpacker10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
command-line10
configurations10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
Mar 2013 - Mar 2022
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1302 reviews, 647 commits, 975 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Phil primarily focused on addressing bugs and implementing improvements within the Joomla CMS codebase. Contributions included fixes for incorrect error messages in folder creation and improved handling of directory separators for enhanced IIS compatibility. Additionally, the user made enhancements to the ReCaptcha plugin, resolving issues related to undefined variables and deprecation and also fixed an issue with the database query.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
symfony/webpack-encore-bundle
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Symfony integration with Webpack Encore!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 28 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the integration of Webpack Encore with Symfony. Their work focused on resolving CORS issues by adding and configuring the `crossorigin` attribute for script and stylesheet tags. They also fixed related tests and made the `crossorigin` attribute configurable, allowing for "anonymous" or "use-credentials" values, and defaulting to "anonymous."
webpacksymfonywebpack-encoreencore
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.