Spen Taylor
Software Engineer at Freelance
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSpen Taylor is a software engineer with 11 years' experience focused on JavaScript front-end development, currently working at APEX while maintaining freelance projects. He contributed to Automattic’s high-profile wp-calypso codebase, improving the WordPress.com signup flow with event tracking, refactors, and state-driven navigation. Comfortable across agency, retail, and product environments (Burberry, River Island, Automattic), he brings pragmatic UI-first thinking and a knack for starting and iterating side projects. Trained in web app development with a background in Ocean Sciences, he blends analytical curiosity with practical shipping discipline. Colleagues describe him as a serial project starter who prefers to let code and results speak more than status updates.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Web App Development / Ruby on Rails, Web App Development / Ruby on Rails at BitmakerOcean Sciences (BSc), Ocean Sciences (BSc) at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
redux10
react10
s69
wordpress9
nodejs8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Oct 2016 - Dec 2020
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:341 commits, 471 PRs, 814 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Spen primarily contributed to the front-end components of the WordPress.com platform, specifically focusing on the signup flow. Their work included adding event tracking for error reporting, removing unnecessary props, and connecting progress state to navigation links. The user also refactored and updated several signup-related components across different steps of the signup process.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
spen/spentaylor.com-react-wordpress-theme
Nov 2016 - Jan 2020
Build repo for spentaylor.com, now React-and-WordPress-theme-ified!
Contributions:315 commits, 235 PRs, 155 pushes in 3 years 2 months
reactwordpresswordpress-themestyled-componentses6
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