Sam Taylor
VP Technology at Point Sigma
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Taylor is a VP of Technology based in London with 12 years' experience scaling data and engineering organisations across high-growth consumer and travel businesses. He built and doubled Cleo’s data function and expanded his remit to lead engineering, growing out senior tech leadership and delivery capability. Previously at Trainline he progressed from the company’s first data scientist to Head of Data, shipping real-time data platforms, ML products like price prediction, and experimentation systems that materially boosted revenue and product personalisation. Sam pairs hands-on machine learning and data-engineering expertise with proven people leadership, structuring teams and tooling (dbt, Kafka, real-time ML infra) to turn models into customer value quickly. His background spans decisioning systems at Wonga and early software engineering roles, giving him both product-facing insight and production systems experience.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Data Mining and High Performance Computing, Computer Science, Distinction, Machine Learning, Data Mining and High Performance Computing, Computer Science, Distinction at University of BristolBSc Business and Computer Science, Computer Science, 1st Class Honours, BSc Business and Computer Science, Computer Science, 1st Class Honours at Aston University
Github Skills (33)
meilisearch10
searching10
laravel-scout10
algolia9
eloquent9
laravel9
lumen8
php8
parsing8
expansion8
novel8
minecraft7
rest7
watchface7
visual7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LordKyubae/Anticlockwise
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Anticlockwise WearOS Watch Face
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
androidwatchfacewearos
PresbyteUK/Jikan
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Jikan RESTful API Java Client
Contributions:5 releases, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 5 months
apirestfulrestjava-apirest-api
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