Fred Murphy
Senior Software Developer at Creative Technology
Reigate and Banstead, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Murphy is a Senior Software Developer with 25 years of hands-on experience delivering pragmatic, maintainable systems across investment banking and insurance domains. Comfortable from architecture and analysis through implementation, he prefers clean, simple designs that make life easier for the next engineer rather than chasing front-end trends. He has led teams and projects at major institutions (RBS, NatWest, AIG) and currently drives delivery at Creative Technology from his base in Reigate. Beyond enterprise systems he contributes to embedded open-source firmware—improving laser control and PWM/TLL handling in the popular Smoothieware CNC project—demonstrating a breadth that spans full-stack and low-level IoT/embedded work. Trained in business economics and accounting, he combines technical depth with commercial awareness, consistently translating complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Business Economics and Accounting, BSc, Business Economics and Accounting at University of Southampton
Github Skills (8)
embedded10
c-language10
gcode10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
pwm10
interfacing9
hardware-interface9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Smoothieware/Smoothieware
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Modular, opensource, high performance G-code interpreter and CNC controller written in Object-Oriented C++
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Fred's commits primarily revolve around enhancements and modifications to the laser module functionality within the Smoothieware firmware. They added a new parameter for controlling the laser's TTL pin and improved control over the laser's PWM output. The user addressed memory management issues and refined the logic for turning the laser on and off, ensuring proper synchronization with G-code commands, specifically related to G2 and G3 commands. The commits indicate a focus on laser control, including proportional power scaling and TTL functionality.
cppcontrollerc-plus-plusperformancemodular
FredMurphy/LockNFC
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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