Brendan Jurd
Senior Software Engineer at Nova Systems Australia and New Zealand
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Jurd is a senior software engineer and database specialist with over two decades of hands-on experience, focused primarily on Postgres, Python and web application development. He has a track record of designing robust data models and automating error-prone business processes across sectors from healthcare rostering and payroll to geospatial systems at Nova Systems. Brendan contributes to the Postgres project to improve built-in functions and error messages, and has practical API experience through contributions to the pyxero Xero integration, fixing edge-case parsing and payroll features. Comfortable across the full stack, he also brings strong configuration management and ops experience (Ansible, Puppet, Nagios) that keeps systems resilient in production. Based in Canberra, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a pragmatic eye for UX and maintainable, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
error-handling10
api10
python10
xero-api10
apidoc10
jsonp9
parsing9
json-parser9
json9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
django6
django-authentication6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
freakboy3742/pyxero
Aug 2015 - May 2019
Python API for accessing the REST API of the Xero accounting tool.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily worked on bug fixes and enhancements related to the Xero API integration. They addressed issues arising from unexpected data structures in Xero API responses, particularly handling missing elements and KeyErrors. Their contributions included modifying code to correctly parse responses for attachment requests and improving error handling within the `XeroBadRequest` exception class. Additionally, the user implemented a feature to add super funds to the Payroll API, and added some missing object names mappings for the Xero Payroll API.
pythonrestrest-apixero
direvus/guitarchords
May 2022 - May 2026
Generator for guitar chord diagrams
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years
chord-diagram
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