TalkTalk ’s Technology Developer , Philip Clayson , described the company as a modern - day mix of FTSE company and " grown - up start - up " , with the right culture for innovation . Clayson revealed: “I have started the software team at TalkTalk on the journey of a huge investment to start removing our software duplication, reducing obsolete code and re-engineering software stacks. Clayson joined the company in 2015 , spending his first year remediating TalkTalk ’s technology portfolio after it suffered a massive cyber attack . Since then , he has focused on rationalising and modernising the company ’s expansive legacy technology estate , which grew as it focused on both acquiring companies and duplicating them . A significant target for the coming year is to reduce the company ’s tech debt by 50 % .
TalkTalk ’s Technology Developer , Philip Clayson , described the company as a modern - day mix of FTSE company and " grown - up start - up " , with the right culture for innovation . Clayson joined the company in 2015 , spending his first year remediating TalkTalk ’s technology portfolio after it suffered a massive cyber attack . Since then , he has focused on rationalising and modernising the company ’s expansive legacy technology estate , which grew as it focused on both acquiring companies and duplicating them . A significant target for the coming year is to reduce the company ’s tech debt by 50 % .