Josh Taylor
Founder of Vouch. Game-industry engineer (RDR2, GTA). Toronto.
Started with physics. Stayed for the games · 2010–2015
B.Sc. Physics at McMaster, then a game-programming diploma at George Brown — Dean’s List.
First jobs, told straight · 2015–2017
Safety-training games for Vale’s miners, then kids’ games in TypeScript and Phaser at Relish Interactive. Small teams, shipped work.
Rockstar Games · 2017–2021
Designer & Gameplay Scripter, Toronto. GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA VI — systems played by 200M+ people.
LightspeedLA · 2021–2025
Senior World Systems Designer — four years building Last Sentinel, an open-world action game set in near-future Tokyo. UE5, C++. Then the layoff. That part matters: it’s why the next island exists.
Vouch · 2025–now
Back home in Toronto. Founded Vouch — the word-of-mouth app, live on iOS and Android.
The Lab · ongoing
Just for fun. Robots, trading bots, tiny simulated ecosystems, AI experiments.