Michael Truscott
Founding Data Engineer
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Truscott is a Founding Data Engineer with 11 years’ experience building reliable data platforms and analytics for finance and security, currently leading deduplication, enrichment, and remediation systems at Smithy Security. He has deep expertise in time-series and big-data tooling—managing OneTick for multi-asset financial data, and designing high-performance ClickHouse analytics and Python automation to detect cyber threats and reduce noise in alerts. Past roles delivering multimillion-pound client benefits show he combines technical rigor (SQL, Java/Kotlin, Python) with strong stakeholder engagement and product-focused experimentation like A/B testing. A Computer Science graduate who regularly taught coding to primary students and competed in hackathons, he brings both mentorship and a hands-on engineering ethos to early-stage systems. An uncommon strength is translating research/academic HPC tooling into usable portals and production services, reflecting a sustained interest in making complex infrastructure accessible.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Physics A2 , Maths A2 , Computing A2, Further Maths AS, Extended Project Qualification, Physics: A, Maths: A*, Computing: B, F Maths: B, EPQ: A*, High School, Physics A2 , Maths A2 , Computing A2, Further Maths AS, Extended Project Qualification, Physics: A, Maths: A*, Computing: B, F Maths: B, EPQ: A* at Hills Road Sixth Form CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1 with Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1 with Honours at University of Birmingham
English
Github Skills (36)
scripting10
interaction10
robotics9
graph9
webapp9
sdlc9
frontend8
google-flights8
tabletop8
python8
playing8
rpg8
javascript8
cloud-security7
devsecops7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TauOmicronMu/gehack
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:21 PRs, 18 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 8 months
PTruscott/algo-rekt
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:43 pushes in 6 months
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