Summary
William Taylor is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years at Morgan Stanley, currently serving as Vice President and tech lead for the firm’s primary repository. He has progressed through analyst and associate roles across New York, Glasgow and London, demonstrating strong cross-jurisdictional delivery and platform ownership in large financial systems. With an MSc in Software Engineering from Oxford and a background in Computer Games Technology, he blends rigorous engineering foundations with a practical, product-focused mindset. Known for stabilizing and scaling critical codebases, he excels at coordinating engineering, risk and operations stakeholders to ship reliable systems. His career trajectory reflects a pattern of rapid promotion and entrusted responsibility, signaling both technical depth and organizational impact. Outside core banking systems, his games-tech roots give him an unusual perspective on performance and real-time systems design.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology, BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology at University of the West of Scotland
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University of Oxford
English