Michael Aldridge

Founding Software Engineer @Tracebit

London, GB

Actively headhunted by my former head of engineering to join as the first full-time engineer at Tracebit- Led and delivered the entire Azure and Kubernetes product lines from zero to production-ready offerings, both now used by our largest and most valuable customers- Rapidly taught myself new technologies including Go, Helm, Kubernetes, and Azure fundamentals while advancing my existing expertise in AWS and Terraform to deliver critical business outcomes- Promoted Tracebit externally by publishing detection engineering research that was featured by several respected industry publications- Reduced the p99.9 latency of a critical API endpoint by over 100x (from 86s to 0.84s)- Directly supported customers during POCs and onboarding, including serving as the main point of contact for our largest enterprise customer- Selected to lead engineering operations during CTO absence, resolving customer issues and maintaining team focus on key deliverables- Mentored junior engineers to deliver critical product components, contributing to winning significant new customers- Conducted 40+ technical interviews across the most challenging stages of our hiring pipeline

University of Bristol

Bachelor of Science - BS