Mark Taylor
Director at BBC
Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Taylor is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience leading platform engineering, consultancy and team transformations across media, retail and logistics. As Director of Red Folder Consultancy and a Principal Software Engineer at the BBC, he blends hands-on development, architecture review and DevOps to modernise legacy systems and drive platform migrations. He has a track record of rescuing faltering teams and restoring delivery through pragmatic Agile practices, automation and clear operational frameworks. His consultancy work spans ROI-focused technical coaching, interim CTO-level support and regulatory-aligned engineering for complex businesses. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, he brings rare continuity across roles from head-of-IT to principal engineer, often holding teams together through multi-year legacy support and strategic consolidation. Colleagues recognise him for combining technical authority with practical leadership that aligns engineering outcomes to organisational strategy.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Lewes Tertiary College
Stackoverflow
491reputation
12kreached
3answers
5questions
Github Skills (32)
phonegap10
cordova10
background-service10
sdk10
github-api10
dotnet9
octokit-net9
netcore6
jenkins6
azure-pipelines6
unity3d6
android-emulator6
console-application6
aws6
http6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Red-Folder/WebCrawl-Functions
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 72 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
Red-Folder/bgs-core
Dec 2013 - Nov 2019
Core code for the Cordova Background Service
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 years
background-servicecordova
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