About Phil E. Taylor

My background is decades of software development in PHP, full-stack SaaS and the whole platform lifecycle, from architecture through to DevOps. Today that goes into Fractional CTO and retained consultancy work for companies globally, much of it white-label or under NDA: the technical solutions, architecture and platforms other companies run their entire business on. Alongside it I run several digital businesses I founded, including multi-award-winning mySites.guru.

Organisations around the world call me in when an incident goes beyond what their own team can handle, from hacked systems and Personal Data compromises to forensic analysis of intrusions. Website emergencies go through fix.mySites.guru.

Security runs through all of my daily work, across Linux servers, web applications, SaaS products and websites. My responsible disclosure work on critical systems goes back years, with 130 CVEs found and reported since 2018: 15 in Joomla core and 115 across 26 third-party extensions. In 2022 it led to a shortlisting in the Digital Jersey Tech Awards, for a vulnerability I found in the Government of Jersey COVID digital certificate platforms. Anthropic has also enrolled and approved me in its Cyber Verification Program for defensive work, including vulnerability triage and verification, malware analysis and reverse engineering. It isn't an award in itself, but it opens Claude up to a growing range of the security work I do.

Away from code I fly my own aircraft, holding a Commercial Pilot Licence and a Qualified Flight Instructor certification, and take my own boat out with the MCA/RYA Advanced Powerboat certificate, commercially endorsed, among several other maritime certifications.

For Fractional CTO work, incident response or security, email phil@phil-taylor.com.