Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor ​ ​msterdam, Netherlands A - www.tomtaylor­dev.com Address Mobile​ : Website: Date of Birth​ : 6/12/1986 Email​ ​ :-​ Personal Profile I'm a software developer and entrepreneur with a solid business background and education in law. I concept, wireframe and ship great digital products and believe in getting real users and revenue from day one. I'm currently working as a software developer for Keplar Agency and their events startup, 415. I'm a firm believer in clean, maintainable code, but with a level of pragmatism to ensure code gets shipped. I use Ruby, Rails and (recently) React. For more details please see www.tomtaylor­dev.com Career History KEPLAR AGENCY Software Developer, Jan 2016 ­ present ● Full stack software developer ● Working on various client projects as well as a new event management / ticketing startup. ● Key Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, Sass, Compass, HAML, Middleman, Javascript, JQuery, ActiveRecord & Sequel, RSpec, Capybara, S3, Carrierwave, ElasticSearch, Git & Github, Heroku, CircleCI, Rubocop, Codecov, PostgresQL, Grape API. FREELANCE WEB DEVELOPER Feb 2015 ­ Dec 2015 ● Ruby on Rails, TDD, Rspec, Github Flow, Heroku, continuous delivery with CircleCI. ● Built online customer management platform for The CV Joint (NZ). ● Built online artist management platform for Platoon music distribution company. ● Front end website and marketing strategy for beachfrontwellington.co.nz. SYNTHESIO (Social Listening Software) Sales Manager, Feb 2014 ­ Feb 2015 (1 Year) ● Selling the world’s #1 social listening platform, basically an analytics tool for big social data. ● Working on marketing strategy with agencies across UK and Europe ● Top UK salesperson 2014. Top global salesperson Q3 2014. LYRIS ● (Email & Digital Marketing Software) Senior Account Executive, 2013 (6 months) Devising and selling digital marketing solutions to various industries at an enterprise level. ­1­ ● Heavily involved in scoping integrations with CRM and e­commerce systems. ● Top salesperson UK and globally. TICKETPARTNER / 1­NIGHT LTD (Event Ticketing Software) Co­Founder, 2010 – 2013 (4 years) ● Co­founded 1­Night Ltd which we then sold after 4 years to TicketDirect our largest competitor. ● I was responsible for all clients and customers, being the link between our clients and our developers. ● Heavily involved in product design, wire framing, plus some management of outsourced dev teams. ● Some front end programming with HTML and CSS. EDUCATION ● 2006 ­ 2010 Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Science, Genetics University of Otago ​ ­2­