Robert Taylor
Senior Staff Engineer at Elastic Path
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Taylor is a Senior Staff Engineer with 13+ years building resilient, high-traffic web and commerce systems, currently leading merchandising and shopper-facing services at Elastic Path. He combines deep backend expertise in Java, Scala and Go with pragmatic architecture work—stabilising core catalogue services, introducing continuous performance testing, and driving B2B pricing and semantic search initiatives. His career spans complex enterprise domains from HMRC and British Airways to Sage UK, where he introduced TDD and cut processing times from hours to minutes. A hands-on mentor and technical coach, he excels at reducing technical debt and guiding large-scale refactors while keeping operational reliability front and center. Based in Newcastle, he pairs long-term product thinking with a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes through engineering.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Newcastle University
Github Skills (7)
finance6
jenkins4
docker-container2
json1
http1
go1
mongodb1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RobTaylor76/InvoicingEngine
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:79 pushes, 3 branches, 6 tags in 2 years 8 months
RobTaylor76/Cash-Flow-Projector
Jul 2012 - Mar 2020
Create cash flow projections based on incommings and outgoings... loan payements/interest etc
Contributions:144 commits, 9 PRs, 24 pushes in 7 years 8 months
loaninterestfinancecashprojections
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