Eoghan Murray
Founder at GoPixie
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolEoghan Murray is a seasoned full-stack engineer and founder with 17 years building high-traffic web products and developer tools from Dublin. He leads product, UX and engineering work at StatCounter and consults with the core team behind rrweb, contributing fixes and replay performance improvements to the widely used open-source session replay project. His background spans Python backend systems, large-scale data stores (Redis, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL/PostGIS) and performant front-end replay/analytics UIs, including a bespoke session-replay architecture that cut bandwidth and storage by ~75%. As a founder of transport and journey-planning startups he combines product intuition with hands-on implementation across stack and design. He’s comfortable shipping core libraries and infrastructure—examples include form-submission and link-following improvements to MechanicalSoup and numerous bug- and rendering-fixes to rrweb. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy instrumentation and UX problems into scalable, observable products.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
St. Eunan'sBSc, Information Technology, BSc, Information Technology at National University of Ireland, Galway
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
beautifulsoup10
python10
webscraping10
http-request10
web-automation10
pytest9
testing9
html9
css9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rrweb-io/rrweb
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
record and replay the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:202 reviews, 45 commits, 172 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eoghan primarily contributed to the rrweb project by addressing bugs and enhancing the replay functionality. They focused on resolving issues related to event handling, particularly with touch and mouse interactions. The user implemented fixes for rendering issues, including those related to style attributes, and optimized the replay process to improve performance. Their work demonstrates a focus on ensuring accurate and efficient playback of recorded web sessions.
reactreplayfullstoryrecord-and-replayrecord
MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Eoghan contributed to the `mechanicalsoup` library, a Python library for automating interaction with websites. Their work included implementing features related to following links and submitting forms, crucial functionalities for web scraping and automation. They also improved the codebase by refactoring aspects like setting the version number, adding the ability to customize the user agent header, and fixing issues related to form submissions, enhancing the library's usability and maintainability. Furthermore, they added the capability to choose among multiple submit elements on a page.
python-libraryinteractionpythonpypimechanicalsoup
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