https://tylermoore.ens.utulsa.edu/1. Tyler is an American who was living in the UK from 2004-2008.
(Explains the weird mix of American-British in Satoshi's postings, as well as some of the other UK references?)
2. Received his PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge in 2008.
(PhD dissertation entitled 'Cooperative attack and defense in distributed networks' ->
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-718.pdf)
(Reference #108 in Tyler's paper is the EXACT same reference that Satoshi uses in his original Bitcoin paper under Reference #7)
3. Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard from Aug 2008 until Sep 2011.
(Explains how Tyler would have time on his hands to launch Bitcoin before moving on?)
4. If you check his LinkedIn, some of his skills are: Programming, Economics, Computer Security, etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-moore-6555247/5. And finally, he knows C++:
https://tylermoore.ens.utulsa.edu/courses/cse3353/python.html