Michael Mactaggert
Public Defender at COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE OF CHELANCOUNTY
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Mactaggert is a public defender and Seattle University law student with 11 years of professional experience bridging technology and public-interest law. A former computer science graduate and software engineer, he applies technical rigor to legal research and policy work—investigating data dashboards, arguing novel constitutional theories, and producing forensic analyses used in court. He leads independent media projects (Amicus Lectio podcast) and brings hands-on production and data skills from prior roles building QlikView dashboards, Python automation, and large-scale SQL queries. His clinic work has influenced oversight of law enforcement data collection, and he has a track record of winning suppression and dismissal motions in defense practice. Equally comfortable in a courtroom, a codebase, or an audio studio, he combines investigative curiosity with practical advocacy for clients marginalized by the carceral system.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School diploma Engineering, High School diploma Engineering at Washington High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Washington TacomaDoctor of Law - JD, Doctor of Law - JD at Seattle UniversityAssociate of Science (AS) Engineering and Physics, Associate of Science (AS) Engineering and Physics at Pierce College at Puyallup
English, Japanese
Github Skills (123)
python10
asgi10
discord-bot10
discord-py10
distutils9
rust9
riot-games-api9
highlighting9
discord9
podcast9
rails9
python-lib9
compiler8
api8
google-charts8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
whiletruefm/whiletruefm.github.io
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
A tech discussion podcast's website
Contributions:134 commits, 7 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years
podcastingpodcastspodcast
progdisc/resources
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
Resources recommended by members of our community. We welcome contributions, so feel free to send us pull requests adding things to the list! The resources in this list automatically get pushed to the http://progdisc.club/resources page.
Contributions:50 commits, 9 PRs, 33 pushes in 5 years 3 months
pull-requestsstudy-resourcemembersrecommendationswelcome
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