Martin Guy
Parliamentary Assistant To Stephen Kerr MSP, Shadow Minister For Employment And Investment at The Scottish Parliament
Hexham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Guy is a versatile researcher, entrepreneur and public policy operator with 15 years’ experience across government, consulting and tech projects. He currently supports Stephen Kerr MSP as a Parliamentary Assistant, where investigative research and FOI work has driven national media stories and the release of sensitive government reports, while also managing high-impact constituent engagement and social media. Simultaneously he leads pro-bono consulting teams at Playfair, runs BritShopping Ltd as founder and director, and built state.scot — a Python-backed dashboard that automates tracking of Scottish Government performance. His background blends rigorous data and investigative skills with hands-on product delivery and startup finance, underpinned by an Economics & Management degree from St Andrews. An active contributor to embedded/IoT open-source (notably enhancements to the eLua AVR32 hardware abstraction), he pairs technical fluency with policy insight to translate complex data into newsworthy outcomes and practical recommendations.
15 years of coding experience
A-Levels, A-Levels at RGS NewcastleBSc, Economics & Management, BSc, Economics & Management at University of St AndrewsGCSEs, GCSEs at Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham
Github Skills (11)
c1710
i2c10
embedded10
adc10
c1110
sys10
pwm10
microcontroller9
memory-management9
lua8
git8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elua/elua
Mar 2011 - May 2014
eLua Project on GitHub
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:248 commits, 4 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the eLua project, making enhancements and fixing bugs related to the hardware abstraction layer for AVR32 microcontrollers. They made numerous changes, including bug fixes and optimizations to the I2C, PWM, and ADC drivers. The user's contributions also involved enhancements to the memory management and configuration of the Mizar32 platform.
martinwguy/lua-ed
Mar 2011 - Jan 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
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