Michael Macnair
Backend Engineer, Security Infrastructure at Monzo Bank
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMichael Macnair is a backend engineer specializing in security infrastructure with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and hardening systems for high-assurance environments. Currently at Monzo Bank, he applies a background of long-term security engineering leadership from Thales Digital Identity & Security to protect payment and identity services at scale. His career spans applied security roles across defence and commercial firms, giving him deep familiarity with threat modelling, secure system architecture, and operational risk management. Colleagues rely on him to translate rigorous security requirements into pragmatic infrastructure and backend code that balances auditability with velocity. He brings a practical mindset shaped by years working in regulated, mission-critical contexts—comfortable navigating both technical debt and compliance constraints. Based in the UK, he pairs steady delivery with a penchant for making complex security controls usable for engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mykter/afl-training
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
Exercises to learn how to fuzz with American Fuzzy Lop
Contributions:93 commits, 2 PRs, 72 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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mykter/TagTime-desktop
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Cross-platform desktop implementation of TagTime
Contributions:10 releases, 337 commits, 83 PRs in 2 years
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