Dean Murray
Software Engineer at Plaid
Tooele, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Murray is a commercially-minded software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building integrations, automation, and scalable web services across healthcare, fintech, and SaaS environments. Currently at Plaid, he brings a rare blend of deep finance and accounting domain expertise plus full-stack development skills—having both architected Java/Spring systems and shipped front-end/API solutions that saved thousands of manual hours. He’s led technical teams, mentored junior developers, and delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 50% faster rules engine and 1800+ hours/year reclaimed through automation). Dean’s background in financial leadership and publishing underscores strong communication, product-minded thinking, and an ability to translate business needs into auditable, robust systems. He also runs a technical blog (writingcode.net), reflecting a passion for sharing practical engineering insights beyond his day job.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Accounting and Economics (Dual Major), 3.95 GPA, Bachelor's degree, Accounting and Economics (Dual Major), 3.95 GPA at Utah State University
Spanish
Github Skills (27)
android-auto9
mvvm-architecture7
music7
kotlin7
android-application6
android6
android-app6
transformation6
viewmodel5
coroutines5
jetpack-compose5
mvvm5
architecture5
kotlin-coroutines4
inventory-management-system3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cleverSheep/Check-In
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Prototype for an attendence based project I'm working on
Contributions:54 commits, 4 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 month
prototypeworking-on
cleverSheep/AnimeKing2
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:100 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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