Brian Murrell
Retired at Various Companies
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Murrell is a veteran Linux and UNIX systems engineer with over 35 years of hands-on experience building, administering, and troubleshooting complex infrastructure. He has driven DevOps, build and packaging automation, and CI/CD practices at scale—most recently contributing to DAOS and automating Jellyfin builds for Fedora and EL platforms. At Intel he moved proprietary tooling into open-source workflows, standing up a near-1000-VM test cloud and applying configuration management to make deployments repeatable and robust. A pragmatic problem-solver and quick study, he pairs low-level systems knowledge (from floppy-era Linux to modern systemd/service integration) with scripting and release-engineering chops. He’s open to contract and consulting work focused on Linux, storage, and DevOps, and enjoys tackling intricate puzzles in production environments. Based in Kingston, Ontario, he brings rare institutional memory of Linux’s evolution alongside contemporary engineering practices.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming and Systems, Computer Programming and Systems at DeVry Institute of Technology
Github Skills (25)
python10
scripting10
packaging10
bash10
cicd10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
dockers9
continuous-integration9
cin9
fedora9
docker9
devops9
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
daos-stack/daos
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
DAOS Storage Stack (client libraries, storage engine, control plane)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 2008 reviews, 854 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily focused on improving and hardening the DAOS storage stack. Their work included fixing build issues, improving python scripts, and hardening python checking scripts. They also addressed a build dependency issue for building the tests, and they also optimized the functional tests and corrected some test logic issues.
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jellyfin/jellyfin
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 15 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on automating build and packaging processes for the Jellyfin project, specifically targeting Fedora and EL platforms. They implemented enhancements for automatic building in COPR based on webhooks, enabling builds for tagging events and releases. The user also made updates to shell scripts related to creating tarballs and packaging, including bug fixes and improvements to the build environment setup.
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