Phil Taylor
Chief Technology Officer at CDW
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Taylor is a seasoned technology leader and serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building software products, companies, and high-performing engineering organizations. As CTO of CDW Digital Velocity he scaled the business from 250 to 1,200 people and drove cloud-native, AI, DevSecOps, and app modernization strategies that generated billions in revenue. He blends hands-on engineering roots—from full-stack development to cloud architecture—with a lean startup mindset that prioritizes customer-driven product evolution. Phil has repeatedly founded and scaled services and platform businesses (including BrightWork and IGNW), proving an ability to turn technical vision into repeatable GTM and delivery models. Based in Dallas, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with talent development, often investing heavily in team growth and operational rigor. Not obvious from titles alone: he alternates between deep technical problem-solving and building scalable people/process frameworks that enable rapid business expansion.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Founder Chicago 2016 Entrepreneurship / Tech Startups, Founder Chicago 2016 Entrepreneurship / Tech Startups at TechStarsBachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at DeVry University
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Github Skills (50)
jsdelivr10
slave9
exporter9
traffic9
master-slave9
mongodb8
pmm8
esmodules8
cdn8
prometheus-exporter8
npm8
nodejs7
javascript7
infrastructure7
http7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IGNW/terraform-provider-cisco-aci
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Terraform provider for automating Cisco ACI enabled networks
Contributions:5 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
netmikocisco-aciprovidernetwork-automationredfish
phil-taylor/nreports
Jun 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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