Chris Murray
Infrastructure Specialist at Battle Scars Self-harm Support Charity
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Murray is an infrastructure specialist with 13 years' experience delivering resilient Windows, virtualization and cloud platforms across public and private sectors, currently supporting VMware/ESX and Windows Server at Capita while serving as CTO of Resilience In A Box. He combines hands-on incident leadership and 3rd/4th-line engineering with cloud buildouts (Azure/AWS), device management (Intune/Autopilot) and large-scale migrations, and has contributed to the popular netboot.xyz project to keep network-boot images current. A volunteer technical lead for a self-harm support charity, he brings rare cross-cutting experience in IT operations, policy and user-facing support, underpinned by an MSc in Computer Science with Cyber Security. Based in Manchester, he is active in maker and hackerspace communities and is motivated by accessibility, inclusion and welfare-driven technology projects.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Maths, English language and Spanish, Maths, English language and Spanish at St. Malachy's CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science with Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science with Cyber Security at University of YorkBSc Hons, Computing Science, BSc Hons, Computing Science at Ulster UniversityLoughshore Educational Resource Centre
Spanish, French, Irish, English
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Github Skills (12)
bash10
ipxe10
installer10
installers10
boot10
ansible9
menu9
ansible-galaxy9
docker8
dockers8
powerbi6
powerbi-desktop6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
netbootxyz/netboot.xyz
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the netboot.xyz project by updating the boot environment options. These updates involved modifying boot configurations for different operating systems, updating versions of utilities like Clonezilla, and managing the available Ubuntu versions for network booting, including adding and removing versions based on their lifecycle. The user’s changes focused on ensuring the project supports the latest versions and removing unsupported legacy versions.
operating-systemspxebootbiosmenubootloader
BelfastTechServices/manchestertechservices.co.uk
May 2020 - Jan 2025
MTS Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 8 months
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