Thursday 8 October 2026, 3pm BST, 45 minutes. A conversation with Dan Taylor on leaving a content estate spread across Liferay, Confluence, and AEM, and what the migration actually saved.
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Drury.
Award-winning creative technologist, speaker, and digital strategist with over 15 years experience pushing the boundaries of design and technology. I believe in building bold, breaking rules, and creating experiences that leave a lasting impact.
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Awards &
Recognition
Storyblok
Awarded the Storyblok Most Valued Professional 2026 award in the Changemaker category.
Storyblok
Awarded the Storyblok Most Valued Professional 2025 award for effecting change within Virgin Media O2.
Storyblok
Awarded the Innovation of the Year 2025 award for contributions in the open source community, for Storyblok React Native Live.
Featured
Videos
Discussing why Virgin Media O2 contributed React Native Live.
How Storyblok has contributed to Virgin Media O2's transformation successes.
Speaking
Engagements
MACH X: Amsterdam, Day 1, 09:50 to 10:10 in the Concert Hall. Composable web, mobile, and contact-centre capabilities on top of the brownfield, leaving critical legacy systems in place as the foundation for agentic services. https://mach-x.machalliance.org/amsterdam/
MACH X 2026 agendaHow do we move AI from prompting experiments to production-grade workflows and the cultural shifts required to scale a full-stack creative engine?
Sign Up at LumaJoined Vercel for a fireside chat on the topic of how the shape of software is changing. UIs used to be the trunk from which every action branched — now they're becoming leaf nodes. The new trunk? Agents. Headless, autonomous software invoked from anywhere: chat, mobile, voice, Slack.
Vercel Sign Up PageJoined Storyblok for a fireside chat titled "How Virgin Media O2 is embracing Storyblok." Telling the story of how we migrated 48 sites in 1 year, and built an industry first integration for React Native allowing marketers to see real time updates in their own App.
Watch the video on StoryblokInnovation in the Open - Bringing Storyblok to React Native. Discussing Virgin Media O2's latest open source contribution: React Native Live, bridging the gap between CMS and App.
Watch the video on StoryblokInnovation in the Open - Bringing Storyblok to React Native. Discussing Virgin Media O2's latest open source contribution: React Native Live, bridging the gap between CMS and App.
Watch the video on StoryblokJoined Storyblok for a fireside chat titled: "Discussion on CMS in digital businesses". Engaging with Product Owners, Account Executives and Customer Success Managers to help them understand what Enterprise businesses are looking for.
Career
History
Apr 2026 — Present
Head of Platform Innovation
Deployment of agentic engineering across 100+ engineers.
Curated agentic engineering standards following Human-in-the-Loop practices, supported by pipeline quality control agents for real time feedback.
Generated over 500 agent skills to describe microservice estate for distributed code generation.
Rolled out AI tools to over 4,000 colleagues across the organisation.
Rolled out Cursor to over 300 engineers, backed by skills, custom MCP, BugBot and Cloud Automations.
Developed a knowledge agent trained on over 3,000 codebases.
Built process improvement agents for real delivery work, not demos.
Trained 100 engineers in how to use AI in day-to-day engineering.
Apr 2024 — Mar 2026
Head of Frontend Technologies
Led a Frontend Engineering team of 60+ engineers.
Over 50 applications built & deployed in 2 years, across Online, Call Centre, Sales, Service and Static Content.
Personally architected and developed Frontend for VMO2 Lumi.
Migrated from Strapi CMS to Storyblok CMS whilst transforming technology from Angular to NextJS.
Responsible for one of the fastest transforms in VMO2 history, personally delivering a 1700 page transform from Netcracker CMS to NextJS/Storyblok in 3 months.
Reduced time to market for static CMS platforms from > 3 months to 3 days.
Developed site migration agents via LangChain & LangGraph. Migrating 720 pages in under 2 days from AEM to Storyblok.
Apr 2022 — Mar 2024
Lead Application Architect
Migrated 12 mature Angular applications from NX Monorepo to standalone.
Developed GCP based static content hosting platform as part of migration from AWS.
Migrated from Angular + Scully to Angular Universal (now Angular SSR).
Introduced Static Content via Astro Framework.
Jan 2018 — Mar 2022
UX/UI Lead Developer
Led a small team of engineers to develop accessible, multi-brand component library for AEM, Angular, React, React Native, Salesforce LWC, Swift UI and Kotlin.
Strategy and POC execution of Barclays "app of the future" in React Native.
Jan 2014 — Dec 2017
Lead Application Architect
Designed and executed migration from MVC architecture to Angular frontend + microservices.
Rebuilt the MyTalkTalk app in Ionic Framework.
Digital SME for Omnichannel Faults & Diagnostics.
Mar 2013 — Dec 2013
Web Developer
Part of an engineering team replatforming CBBC and CBeebies (Children's BBC) to a Mobile First, Scala Play Framework platform.