He has worked on TV series such as Black Books and The IT Crowd, as well as on Edgar Wright's television series Spaced and feature films Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), The World's End (2013), and Baby Driver (2017).
Machliss was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and is a graduate of Brighton Secondary College.
He got his start working as a gofer on Fast Forward, an Australian sketch comedy series.
[1] From there, he was hired as a freelance editor to work on British television series, including Spaced and Black Books.
[2] His work on these series got him a job editing Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar Wright, in 2010.