Max W.

FDE @ Northslope Technologies, ex-Palantir

Australia (AU)

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About

FDE @ Northslope Technologies, ex-Palantir

Total Experience: 8 years and 1 month

Experience

Forward Deployed Engineer - Northslope Technologies (Current)

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year and 5 months) in London Area, United Kingdom

Department: Engineering and Technical • Level: Specialist

Northslope Technologies is a Technology, Information and Internet company. Northslope is an AI application layer for Palantir AIP, delivering mission-specific AI for aerospace, energy, finance, and more. Northslope Technologies has 100-150 employees (+280% YoY), founded in 2024. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States, with presence in United Kingdom. Its workforce is distributed across 12 countries (including United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, and Spain). Has $6.8M in total funding.

Contractor - UK Defence

Aug 2024 - Feb 2025 (6 months) in London Area, United Kingdom

Department: Trades • Level: Specialist

Forward Deployed Operations Engineer - Palantir Technologies

Apr 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years and 4 months) in London, England, United Kingdom

Department: Engineering and Technical

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is a Software Development company. Palantir is a company that provides foundational software for tomorrow. Palantir Technologies has 3,000-4,000 employees (+20% YoY) and has annual revenue in the $4B-$5B range, founded in 2003. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States, operates in 12 countries (including Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, South Korea, and Netherlands). Its workforce is distributed across 49 countries (including United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia). Has a market cap in the $100B-$200B range. IPO 2020.

Data Consultant - C4ADS

Jun 2020 - Apr 2022 (1 year and 10 months) in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Gained extensive experience in Big Data (>7B rows) location data processing using AWS EMR/EC2 + S3, PySpark/Scala Provided analytical support to projects within the Organised Crime and Grand Corruption cell, exporting, ingesting and transforming of vast numbers of foreign and disparate datasets (7000+ datasets, 4TB+) within Palantir Foundry Designed and implemented ML and neural network pipelines Developed GIS tools to aid and source investigative work

Department: Consulting • Level: Specialist

C4ADS is a nonprofit organization. C4ADS is a nonprofit organization that aims to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. They conduct data-driven, tech-powered investigations into the networks harming the world and have a global impact network. C4ADS has 60-70 employees (8-9% YoY decline) and has annual revenue in the $10M-$20M range, founded in 2002. Headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Its workforce is distributed across United States, Spain, South Africa, and Poland. Research output of 20-30 works, primarily in Social Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Software Engineer - 321ski

Dec 2019 - Jun 2020 (6 months)

• Developed a bespoke system to save time for staff and drastically cut costs of up to six figures over the next 2-3 years.
• Implemented data parsing and numerous web scraping methods in Python to automate time-sensitive procurement for the business.

Department: Engineering and Technical

321ski is a Travel Arrangements company. 321ski has 1-10 employees. Headquartered in Maidenhead, United Kingdom.

Cyber Security Industrial Placement - CGI

Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 (3 months) in Reading, United Kingdom

• Triaged pertinent security alerts in the Security Operations Centre (SOC), receiving monitoring access to multiple Security Information and Event Management tools such as Darktrace and LogPoint.
• Developed programs and visualizations to aid the Advanced Threat Investigation team, including designing a tool to show relations between MITRE ATT&CK matrix elements.
• Significantly contributed to the SOC by automating the generation of monthly reports for clients, saving analysts’ time and ensuring consistent reporting.
• Amended and updated security awareness briefs shown to internal and external stakeholders including client Senior Executives of a large telecommunications company.

CGI (GIB-A.TO) is a IT Services and IT Consulting company. CGI is one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world, offering end-to-end services, business consulting, systems integration, managed IT services, application services, infrastructure services, and business process services. CGI has 60,000-70,000 employees (+2-3% YoY) and has annual revenue in the CAD10B-CAD20B range, founded in 1976. Headquartered in United States, operates in 26 countries (including United Kingdom, France, Australia, Finland, and Canada). Its workforce is distributed across 104 countries (including India, United States, France, Canada, and United Kingdom). Has $1.2B in total funding, with 2 prior funding rounds.

Tour Manager - Semi-Toned

Jul 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year and 2 months) in Exeter, United Kingdom

Tasked with independently organising a three week tour of the UK in April 2019, and the early steps to put in place for a US tour in April 2020. Communicated heavily with venues, technical teams and accommodation providers to create a tractable route, budget and plan Resulted in a financially successful tour, filling 70-100% capacity in all of the venues.

Department: Project Management • Level: Manager

Semi-Toned is a nonprofit organization. Semitoned.com is a domain for sale. Founded in 2010. Headquartered in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.

Software Developer - Nile River Explorers

Jul 2016 - Sep 2016 (2 months) in Jinja, Uganda

• Designed and implemented a stock control system while employed at the rafting company in Uganda, to combat the problem of employees stealing from the restaurant’s kitchen.
• Regularly held meetings with the camp's manager to refine the software according to specific and changing demands.
• The result was a noticeable improvement in stock control and ultimately the financial health of the restaurant.

Department: Engineering and Technical • Level: Specialist

Nile River Explorers is a Leisure, Travel & Tourism company. Nile River Explorers is a company that offers white water rafting services in Jinja, Uganda. They provide a range of activities including tubing, cruises, accommodation, and travel guides. The company is focused on providing safe and reliable rafting experiences for individuals, families, and high adventure enthusiasts. Nile River Explorers has 1-10 employees and has annual revenue in the under $1M range, founded in 1996. Headquartered in Jinja, Uganda, with an office in Bujagali. Its workforce is distributed across Uganda and Kenya.

Intern - Defence & Space - Ultra Electronics

Jun 2014 - Jul 2014 (1 month) in Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Department: Consulting • Level: Intern

Ultra Electronics Group (ULE) is a Defense and Space Manufacturing company. Cobham Ultra specializes in providing application-engineered bespoke solutions for our customers’ mission critical situations. Ultra Electronics Group has 300-400 employees (-10% YoY) and has annual revenue in the $500M-$600M range. Headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom, with presence in United States and Australia. Its workforce is distributed across 16 countries (including United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and Oman). Has $1.6M in total funding, with 2 prior funding rounds.

Education

Master's degree Computer Science at University of Exeter

2016 - 2020 (4 years) in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Fourth Year - Individual Literature Review and Project - 'Multi-Agent Model of Collective Attention on Twitter' Group Development Project - 'Novel Approaches to Lagrangian Evaluation of Climate Data' Modules: Introduction to Data Science, Social Networks & Text Analyses, Computer Modelling and Simulation, Evolutionary Computation and Optimisation Third Year- 2:1 Individual Literature Review and Project - 'Inferring Spatial Overlap and Colocation using Mobile Phone Data' Modules: High Performance Computing, Nature Inspired Computation, Database Theory and Design, Algorithms that Changed the World, Enterprise Computing Second Year - 2:1 Modules: Network and Computer Security, Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Object-Oriented Programming, The C Family, Software Engineering, Software Development, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Computer Languages and Representations First Year - 2:1

University of Exeter is a higher education institution. The University of Exeter offers research and study in sciences, social sciences, business, humanities, and arts. University of Exeter has 6,000-7,000 employees and has annual revenue in the GBP500M-GBP600M range, founded in 1955. Headquartered in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom, with an office in Penryn. Its workforce is distributed across 76 countries (including United Kingdom, China, United States, India, and Netherlands). Has $1.2M in total funding, with 1 prior funding round. Research output of 90,000-100,000 works, primarily in Medicine, Social Sciences, and Environmental Science. Funds research behind 300-400 works.

A Levels Mathematics Computing and Economics at Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools

2014 - 2016 (2 years) in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Skills

access • advanced threat • amazon web services (aws) • analytical • analytical support • att&ck • automating • automation • aws • big data • briefs • budget plan • budgeting • consultant • control system • cyber • cyber security • cybersecurity • darktrace • data • data analysis • data consultant • data ingestion • data parsing • data processing • datasets • defence • defence & space • deployed operations • designing • developer • engineer • event management • event management tools • financial health • financial management • forward deployed • forward deployed engineer • foundry • gis • gis tools • investigation • investigative work • location data • machine learning • management • management tools • matrix • mitre • mitre att&ck • mitre att&ck matrix • monitoring • monthly reports • networking • neural network • operations • organized • organizing • palantir • palantir foundry • parsing • pipelines • placement • processing • procurement • python • python (programming language) • receiving (logistics) • reporting • reports • scraping • security • security awareness • security information • security information and event management • security operations • security operations centre • soc • software developer • software engineering • stakeholders • steps • stock control • support • support projects • teams • technical skills • telecommunications • threat investigation • tour manager • vast • visualizations • web development • web scraping