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Development consultancy
Through Manticore Technologies I provide full-stack development services specialising in .NET (C#), Microsoft Azure, container-based architecture and web technologies.
Software consultant · South East England
MichaelTaylor
I'm Michael, a software consultant helping teams plan, build and improve ambitious software.
What I do
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Architecture consultancy
Through Manticore Technologies I help plan, cost, architect and review software projects of any size or scale.
About
Code is only part
of the picture.
Some lists of stuff that I'm interested in — from strongly typed software to strange electronic music and sprawling science fiction.
Building
Development
I’ve always been interested in new languages, tools and software engineering techniques. More recently, I’ve been working extensively with AI models through Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to design, build and review complex software. I’m particularly interested in how these tools can accelerate delivery while preserving sound architecture, code quality and human judgement.
Listening
Music
Long-time Spotify user with massively divergent musical tastes — mostly Ambient, Electronica and IDM when programming, with plenty of rock and metal away from the keyboard.
- Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Boards of Canada
- Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, TOOL, Sleep Token
- Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie
Reading
Books
Driving or doing chores has become my reading time - well, my Audible time.
- The Culture · Iain M. Banks
- Remembrance of Earth's Past · Liu Cixin
- The Baroque Cycle · Neal Stephenson
- The First Law · Joe Abercrombie
Gaming
Player one,
across platforms.
I'm a keen gamer. My gamer tag is Tyridan — an old World of Warcraft character name — or Lord Tyridan.
Primary platform
PlayStation
- Gamer tag
- Tyridan
- Device
- PlayStation 5 Pro
- Favourites
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Diablo IV, 007 First Light
For Halo, really
Xbox
- Gamer tag
- Lord Tyridan
- Favourites
- Halo series, Cuphead
Pocket sized
iOS
- Gamer tag
- Tyridan
- Device
- iPhone 16 Pro Max
- Favourites
- Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus
Old habits
Battle.net
- Gamer tag
- Tyridan#2748
- Favourites
- Diablo, StarCraft, World of Warcraft
Back to the PC
Steam / Epic
- Gamer tag
- Tyridan
- Favourites
- Hades, Elite: Dangerous, Half-Life
Experience
Curriculum
vitae.
Highlights from my CV. LinkedIn has the longer version.
Full profile on LinkedInApril 2021 — Present
Symprex
Software Consultant · Contract
Signature 365, an email-signature SaaS product. Developer on a .NET microservice system deployed using Kubernetes with a Vue.js front end.
February 2020 — Present
Manticore Technologies
Director
An independent technology consultancy spanning software architecture and development, practical Claude Code and OpenAI Codex training, applied AI consultancy, and technical strategy.
October 2018 — April 2021
Ordnance Survey
Software Consultant · Contract
Architect and lead developer of a highly scalable .NET Core microservice system for address-data processing.
June 2013 — 2024
Red Sequence
Director
Red Sequence was a software-as-a-service specialist. Timestamp was our flagship product.
1998 — 2002
The University of Birmingham
BSc (Hons) Computer Science / Software Engineering with Business Studies
Contact
Let's build something that works.
If you have a project, consultancy question or interesting collaboration in mind, send me a message.
Email directlymichael@manticore.co