Hi, I'm Andy Taylor
Senior Solutions Architect
who builds scalable cloud solutions.
Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with 30+ years building enterprise infrastructure.
Surrey, UK
Professional Summary
Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with over 30 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure across cloud networking, data engineering, and security. Currently specialising in AWS Analytics as an Analytics Specialist SA, helping customers architect data warehousing, real-time analytics, and ML pipeline solutions. Previously a Network Specialist SA at AWS for five years, where I delivered 9 conference sessions at re:Invent and re:Inforce, enabled 600+ engineers through 8 internal workshops, contributed to the HashiCorp Terraform AWS Provider, and led hackathons generating 161 community PRs. Earlier career spans senior network and security architecture roles at BP, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Sony, including a decade leading BP's Cloud Network eXchange and a UK government IL5-compliant dual data centre programme. Industry recognised with the HashiCorp Core Contributor award, Pulumi Puluminary, and Netbox Hybrid Cloud Hero.
Cloud Architecture
AWS Analytics, networking, data platforms at enterprise scale
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK — industry award-winning contributor
Knowledge Sharing
9 conference talks, 600+ engineers enabled, 67+ open source commits
Work Experience
Amazon Web Services
London, UKSenior Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect
Dec 2025 – Present
- •Subject Matter Expert helping customers solve data challenges and create analytics solutions
- •Design Data & Analytics solutions including data warehousing (Redshift), data lakes, real-time analytics (Kinesis), and ML pipelines
- •Partner with Sales Account Managers and Business Development Representatives to enable customer adoption and revenue attainment
- •Act as voice of the customer, providing product improvement feedback to AWS service teams
Amazon Web Services
London, UKNetwork Specialist Solutions Architect
Jan 2021 – Dec 2025
- •Designed and delivered scalable network architectures for AWS customers, influencing product roadmaps
- •Delivered 7 re:Invent and re:Inforce sessions on Infrastructure as Code, NetDevOps, and network automation
- •Orchestrated 8 internal enablement workshops, enabling 600+ Amazonians with CSAT scores averaging 4.7/5.0
- •Contributed 5 merged PRs to HashiCorp Terraform AWS Provider including Direct Connect SiteLink and Transit Gateway Multicast
- •Authored 2 AWS Networking & Content Delivery blog posts and created 6 aws-samples repositories
- •Spearheaded SDE Apprenticeship Program collaborating with AWS Network Manager/Cloud WAN service team
- •Organised Terraform Provider hackathons generating 33 PRs, with 52 from first-time AWS contributors in 2022
BP International Limited
Sunbury, UKEnterprise Architect
Apr 2020 – Jan 2021
- •Led network transformation across retail, field, edge, security, cloud, and core environments
- •Partnered with cloud platform teams to establish standard network topologies for hybrid cloud operations
- •Championed network automation, embedding an "automation-first" approach throughout infrastructure deployment
BP International Limited
Sunbury, UKNetwork Architect / Project Lead Architect
Jan 2013 – Apr 2020
- •Designed and delivered Cloud Network eXchange (CNX) — hypervisor-agnostic network fabric supporting on-premises, co-los, AWS and Azure
- •Led deployment of four autonomous CNX environments (two US, two EMEA) within Equinix using Cisco ACI
- •Collaborated with AWS and Azure teams to implement Hub and Spoke architecture using Transit Gateway and Azure vHUB
- •Developed Ansible modules (Python) for firewall and Cisco ISE, used Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
- •Led BP technical project for CNX working with Cisco Advanced Services on requirements, design, PoC, and deployment
Sony Europe
Basingstoke, UKSecurity Consultant
Jun 2012 – Jan 2013
- •Security expertise for infrastructure projects including Mobile Device Management, cloud hosting design, and DDoS mitigation
- •Managed European McAfee ePO deployment; contributed to network security strategy development
De La Rue
Basingstoke, UKNetwork & Security Architect (UK Gov SC)
Sep 2009 – Jun 2012
- •Led design and implementation of highly resilient dual data centre solution for UK government project achieving IL5 compliance
- •Managed team of system and network engineers; responsible for network architecture, security, and server builds
Earlier Career
London, UKEarlier careerNetwork & Security Engineering Leadership
1993 – 2009
- •Land Securities (2008-2009): Network and Security Principal Engineer — Extranet Gateway deployment
- •BP (2006-2008): Network and Security Architect — led four America Mega Data Centre projects
- •Goldman Sachs (2004-2005): Technical Project Manager — B2B and Internet firewall infrastructure
- •Deutsche Bank (1999-2003): Senior Network Engineer / Intrusion Detection Specialist
- •Earlier roles at Credit Suisse First Boston, Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Fidelity Investments, Reuters, COLT, and DHL Systems
Recommendations
“Andy is technically superb, his range of knowledge is second to none and he has an incredible ability to take on new technologies and concepts with apparent ease. In addition his attention to detail and desire to drive projects forward make him a huge asset to any team. I have worked with Andy for over 10 years now on a wide range of large & complex projects and would continue to do so at any given opportunity.”
Rob Wilkins
Executive Technology Leader | CTO | CIO | Technology Director
Reported to Andy directly · October 2018
“Andy is a strong leader who's not afraid to pursue issues and drive them forward, this combined with his broad range of technical skills and focus on automation would make him a key member of any project team, as well as an excellent candidate for any technical leadership role. Having worked with Andy, I know his core network experience in large enterprises and passion for automation will make him a valued asset of any large enterprise.”
Darren Worvill
Principal Solution Architect
Worked with Andy on the same team · September 2018
“Andy is a first class engineer with skills and experience not just limited to Network Security. He is results driven and keeps his eye on the ball at all time with excellent project management.”
Byron Chen
Infrastructure Transformation Consultant | Global Network & Data Centre Strategy
Worked with Andy on the same team · October 2009
“Andy proved himself to be a very capable network and security engineer. I would have no hesitation to recommend him for Principal engineering roles.”
Jason Bond
IT Domain Security Architect at RBA
Senior to Andy · April 2009
Industry Awards
Conference Speaking
AWS Cloud WAN MCP Server: Transform Network Operations with GenAI (NET331)
AWS re:Invent
Automate your network operations using NetDevOps best practices
AWS re:Invent
Policy as Code
PulumiUP Europe & Global
How to manage your network using Infrastructure-as-Code
AWS re:Invent
Simplifying cloud infrastructure creation with the AWS CDK (DOP314)
AWS re:Invent
Manage multi-Region/multi-Account AWS Network Firewall with Firewall Manager and IaC
AWS re:Inforce
Manage your network using infrastructure as code
AWS re:Invent
Automate least privilege access using AWS Lambda and managed prefix lists
AWS re:Inforce
Open Source
NetDevAutomateTerraform AWS Provider
6 PRs (5 merged), 44 commits — Direct Connect SiteLink, VPC IPv6, Transit Gateway Multicast, Private S2S VPN
AWS Direct Connect SiteLink
aws_vpc IPv6 CidrBlock NetworkBorderGroup
Transit Gateway Multicast support
AWS Private Site-to-Site VPN
Network Manager S2S VPN Attachment docs
AWS Samples
6 repositories, 23+ commits — hub-and-spoke architectures, Cloud WAN blueprints, TGW migration
Community Impact
161 PRs submitted to AWS Terraform Provider in 2022 (133 merged), 52 from first-time contributors. 2 hackathons generating 33 PRs.
AWS Blog Posts
Co-authored with Pablo Sánchez Carmona
Co-authored with Pablo Sánchez Carmona, Nishant Kumar
Skills
Languages
Soft Skills
Tech Stack
Interests
ITF Taekwon-Do 4th-degree international instructor with 30+ years martial arts experience. Former club owner and coach. Current focus on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Passionate about networking, automation, Python, cloud technologies, and NetDevOps.