Angus Smithson
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Sophos
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAngus Smithson is a Senior Director of Software Engineering with 12 years of experience architecting and operating multi-petabyte big data platforms for cybersecurity, currently leading Data Engineering for the Taegis™ XDR platform at Sophos. He combines hands-on technical depth—having driven migrations from RDBMS to Hadoop, hybrid cloud transitions, and systems that ingest hundreds of billions of events daily—with strategic leadership of distributed, multi-country teams. Angus focuses on data quality, governance, enrichment pipelines, detection engineering and scalable search to power threat detection, triage and investigation across global customer deployments. A pragmatic innovator, he has acted as product owner, authored POCs that became production services, and championed DevOps, static analysis and distribution-agnostic tooling to increase uptime and agility. Based in the UK, he stays engaged with the wider community through open-source contributions and a close attention to industry developments, blending operational rigor with continuous technical exploration.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Science, BSc Computing Science at University of Aberdeen
Github Skills (18)
garmin10
uploader10
converter9
nike7
maven5
maven-plugin5
java4
analytics4
elasticsearch4
hadoop3
protocol-buffers2
jar2
protobuf2
protoc2
api2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
angusws/tcx2nikeplus
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:69 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
convertergarminniketcxuploader
angusws/euler
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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