Paul Young
Senior Data Engineer (Web Archiving)
Woking, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Young is a Senior Data Engineer specializing in web archiving with nine years’ experience at The National Archives, UK, blending archival science with practical data engineering. He designs and implements event-driven ETL workflows and proofs-of-concept—using tools such as Talend and Python—to preserve born-digital records and enable interoperable data services. His background as a digital archivist and product owner gives him a rare combination of domain expertise (file format research, Preservica, DROID, CSV validation) and product delivery skills across discovery, alpha and MVP phases. Paul has led cross-government transfer standards, trained teams on digital selection and sensitivity review, and published/presented research on AI-assisted selection and Google-native preservation. Based in Woking, he pairs a MSc in Archives/Archival Administration with hands-on engineering to translate preservation requirements into auditable, scalable pipelines. A detail-oriented investigator, he regularly updates community resources like PRONOM and tests bespoke preservation tools to keep archival workflows resilient to changing formats.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, 2:1 at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMaster of Science (MSc), Archives/Archival Administration, Master of Science (MSc), Archives/Archival Administration at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Github Skills (21)
csv-parse9
java9
csv-parser9
csv-parsing9
csv8
transformation4
sample-data4
pipeline3
google-docs3
s3-bucket2
amazon2
api2
metadata1
scala1
google-api1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paulyoung84/freud
Feb 2018 - Feb 2024
Script to analyse a DROID CSV export and pick up common file format issues
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 1 month
csvscriptpythonexportfile-format
nationalarchives/dp-research-googletransferPOC
Jan 2021 - Jun 2025
POC scripts to test potential transfer processes for material to TNA stored in Google Drive
Contributions:8 PRs, 59 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 5 months
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