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About Me

I lead the data team at Octopus Energy in Tokyo. Academic interests lie within East and South East Asian comparative politics and elections.

Work

Octopus Energy Tokyo, JP

Head of Data• July 2026 - Present

  • Leading the data team across analytics and delivery

Data Analyst• January 2026 - June 2026

  • Supported analysis and reporting for business decisions.
  • Analysed manual business processes and implemented automation to improve efficiency.

Octopus Electric Vehicles London, UK

Data Analyst• June 2022 - December 2025

  • Develop and maintain data models, ingestion, and visualisations
  • Define data requirements and develop analytical solutions to business problems
  • Collaborate with senior leadership, government departments, and industry associations to drive the uptake of electric vehicles through data insights

Growth Analyst• September 2021 - May 2022

  • Managed inventory levels and lead assignemnt
  • Developed forecasting models to improve inventory management
  • Improved customer communication and engagement

Marketing and Events Analyst Intern• June 2021 - September 2021

  • Managed marketing campaigns and events
  • Implemented tracking and reporting systems for marketing activities

Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation London, UK

Research Administration Intern• May - August 2019

  • Preparing and analysing primary and secondary data for publications and donors
  • Creating surveys and collating responses for international partners

Education

London School of Economics and Political Science

MSc Comparative Politics

  • Specialisation in Democracy and Democratisation
  • Courses ranging from Southeast Asian politics to Applied Regression Analysis

School of Oriental and African Studies

BA Politics

  • Dissertation on the post-authoritarianism in Malaysia

Bavarian International School

IB Bilingual Diploma

Publications

Encyclopaedia of Taiwan Studies

Brill• Published Nov 2023

  • Contributed a section on Electoral Systems in the Domestic Politics section

Projects

FlightCal

  • A webapp to create consistent .ics calender events from a flight number.

Skills

Data and Programming: SQL, dbt, AWS, Git, Python (Scikit-learn, NumPy, Polars, Pandas, NLTK, SpaCy, Beautiful Soup, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib), Airflow, Kubernetes, LLMs (AWS Bedrock, Claude, OpenAI API, Google AI Studio)

General: Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Notion, Zapier

Research: LaTeX, R

Languages: Bilingual in English and German Studying Japanese.

References

  • Michael joined us while he was studying, we were blown away with his work ethic and enthusiasm for the role and sustainability. He's continued to do a pivotal role in the company, working independently and quickly to ensure deadlines are reached - an asset to any team!

    Elspeth Brown (Growth Manager - Octopus Energy for Business)

  • All of the work we gave Michael was completed in an effective and timely manner. He quickly gained an understanding of our research and our working processes and was able to use this new knowledge to complete his work effectively. I note that he used his initiative to problem solve challenges that emerged and found efficient ways of completing our research tasks.

    Amy Pearce (Research Manager - Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation)