Michael Maguire
Staff Software Engineer at Daedalean AI
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMichael Maguire is a multilingual Staff Software Engineer based in Lugano with 11 years of recent experience building high-availability, low-latency systems across finance, aviation AI, and mobile platforms. His career spans roles at Bloomberg where he modernized large-scale C++/Python back-ends, cut Windows build times in half with Conan-based tooling, and implemented distributed, regulatory-compliant storage used by hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. He brings deep expertise in systems design—sharding, consistent hashing, encryption, real-time pipelines (Airflow), and ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure—combined with hands-on work in C++, Python, Java, C#, and embedded/mobile stacks. Michael also has startup and CTO experience shipping consumer-facing mobile products and negotiating commercial partnerships, plus a track record of security-focused engineering including PKI and open-sourcing security-reviewed databases. Fluent in English, German and Italian and holding advanced mathematics training, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical delivery across regulated, mission-critical domains.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Heidelberg UniversityPh.D. (aborted for Microsoft) Mathematics, Ph.D. (aborted for Microsoft) Mathematics at University of TorontoB.Sc. Mathematics, B.Sc. Mathematics at University of GuelphJohn F. Ross CVI
English, French, German, Italian
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Github Skills (63)
objective-c10
conan10
cmake10
cpp10
csharp10
restructuredtext9
ci-server9
cpp-library9
ruby9
python9
php9
grpc9
cygwin9
parquet9
documentation8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
michaelmaguire/exchange
Nov 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
michaelmaguire/docs
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
conan.io reStructuredText documentation
Contributions:4 pushes in 11 months
restructuredtextconan-ioconan
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