Luke Taylor
Software Engineer
Senior Engineering Manager at Guardian News & Media
London, United Kingdom
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About Luke Taylor
Software Engineer @ From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Software Engineer @ From March 2014 to September 2014 (7 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Developer II @ While a Software Developer II at ProQuest, I was responsible for implementing new functionality on ProQuest's flagship search product. During my time there, I also undertook the search...
Software Engineer @ From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Software Engineer @ From March 2014 to September 2014 (7 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Developer II @ While a Software Developer II at ProQuest, I was responsible for implementing new functionality on ProQuest's flagship search product. During my time there, I also undertook the search engine migration of a ProQuest legacy product to a Solr Lucene implementation and moved the product into the cloud with Amazon Web Services, the first product of its kind to be moved within the company. This also involved a design refresh to make the website responsive on mobile. This work was recognised on Choice magazine's annual, highly acclaimed Outstanding Academic Titles list:
http://www.proquest.com/about/news/2015/ProQuests-New-Incarnation-of-Literature-Online-Named-Outstanding-Academic-Title-by-Choice-Magazine.html From April 2013 to March 2014 (1 year) Cambridge, United KingdomSoftware Developer @ While a Software Developer at ProQuest, I was responsible for post processing and user interface/navigation on ProQuest's flagship search product. This primarily involved the implementation of new functionality to support requirements and critical bug fixes using the Apache Tapestry web framework with Java and Prototype.js. I was also responsible, and led development on an initiative to separate out the post processing functionality from the core application into its own RESTful web service. From June 2012 to April 2013 (11 months) Cambridge, United KingdomTechnology Intern @ 1. Four months spent as a Software Developer on ProQuest's legacy products responsible for maintaining, bug-fixing and the development of new functionality primarily using Java, Apache Struts, Perl and JavaScript.
2. Four months spent as a Project Manager on ProQuest's new platform shadowing an experienced Senior Project Manager while being responsible for my own independent project team.
3. Three months spent as a software developer on ProQuest’s new platform working as part of a SCRUM team responsible for the development of new functionality and critical bug fixes, primarily using Java, the Apache Tapestry framework and JavaScript. While undertaking this role I continued to lead my own independent project team and fulfil the various duties and responsibilities of a project manager on this initiative. From August 2011 to June 2012 (11 months) Cambridge, United KingdomSoftware Test Analyst @ Software Test Analyst responsible for testing ProQuest's Chadwyck Healey products (web applications) at various stages of the product life cycle. This role was undertaken in-house for 3 months between the period of finishing sixth-form and starting university, and subsequently continued as a freelancer remotely while at university. From July 2008 to April 2009 (10 months) Cambridge, United KingdomBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science @ University of East Anglia From 2008 to 2011 Long Road Sixth Form College From 2006 to 2008 Luke Taylor is skilled in: Scala, Scrum, Java, Agile, JUnit, Agile Methodologies, Tomcat, MySQL, JavaScript, Perl, Unix, HTML5, REST, Struts, Eclipse
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Guardian News & Media
Software Engineer
September 2014 to Present
Powa Technologies Ltd
Software Engineer
March 2014 to September 2014
London, United Kingdom
ProQuest
Software Developer II
April 2013 to March 2014
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ProQuest
Software Developer
June 2012 to April 2013
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ProQuest
Technology Intern
August 2011 to June 2012
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ProQuest
Software Test Analyst
July 2008 to April 2009
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Luke Taylor's Achievements
Professional Scrum Master 1
Issued by Scrum.org · April 2013
Scrum Boot Camp
Issued by Construx · January 2013
2012 ProQuest Making A World of Difference Award
Issued by ProQuest · December 2012
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