Dave Murray
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Murray is a full-stack software engineer with roughly a decade of IT and systems engineering experience, now focused on observability and DevOps practices at Smartsheet. He holds AWS Solutions Architect/Developer and Terraform certifications, pairs cloud-native serverless interests with hands-on infrastructure work, and contributes to open-source projects such as DuckDB (notably S3 integration fixes). Comfortable owning IT end-to-end—from budgeting and architecture to rollout and support—he has mentored junior teams and acted as a director-level escalation point. His background in mechanical engineering and extensive on-prem to cloud migrations gives him a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to reliability and cost optimisation. Always curious, he combines formal ITIL practices with modern DevOps tooling to drive observable, resilient platforms.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, MEng Mechanical Engineering with Materials Engineering, Masters, MEng Mechanical Engineering with Materials Engineering at Newcastle UniversityMusic Production and Technology, Music Production and Technology at Newcastle College
English, French
Github Skills (11)
aws-s310
databases10
c-language10
aws10
cprogramming-language10
amazon-s310
database10
s3-bucket10
sql9
embedded-database8
analytics7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
duckdb/duckdb
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave's contributions primarily revolve around the `extension/httpfs/s3fs.cpp` file, indicating work related to the S3 file system integration. They addressed issues concerning AWS region configuration by accepting both `AWS_REGION` and `AWS_DEFAULT_REGION` environment variables. Furthermore, the user made minor improvements such as removing an extra line, correcting indentation, and refactoring the code. The commits also include a revert of a specific change, showing iterative refinement.
duckdbsql-databasesqldatabaseolap
OhmniD/art-collect
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:52 pushes, 30 branches in 7 months
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