Gareth Murphy
Principal Research Data Specialist
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolGareth Murphy is a Principal Research Data Specialist based in Copenhagen with 15+ years of experience turning complex scientific and enterprise data into FAIR, production-ready assets. He has led cross-functional teams to build cloud-native metadata infrastructures, ontology-driven search, and automated ETL pipelines at scale—deploying Kubernetes, AWS Glue, Bedrock, ChromaDB and CI-driven ingestion for petabyte-class research data. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he combines a PhD-level background in computational physics with hands-on Python and RDF/OWL engineering to convert legacy unstructured datasets into semantic, LLM-ready formats. His career uniquely blends academic HPC and publication‑grade research with enterprise data governance at Novo Nordisk, and he often trains scientists on domain metadata standards like NeXus and CIF. Peers describe him as a pragmatic innovator who reliably bridges research rigor and production operationalism.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate-Honours, 540 points: 2 A1s and 1 A2, Leaving Certificate subjects: English, Irish, Maths, French, History, Physics, Chemistry, Leaving Certificate-Honours, 540 points: 2 A1s and 1 A2, Leaving Certificate subjects: English, Irish, Maths, French, History, Physics, Chemistry at St. Benildus College Secondary SchoolPhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Trinity College DublinBE, Electronics, 1st Class Honours, BE, Electronics, 1st Class Honours at University College Dublin
English, French, Portuguese, Danish
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Github Skills (137)
controller10
metadata10
data-management10
loopback10
backend10
doi10
pid10
rabbitmq10
open-data10
pan10
nodejs10
data-catalog10
gitbook10
todoist9
sdk9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
garethcmurphy/kubernetes_at_dmsc
Jan 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
garethcmurphy/Readable-Stream-Playground-for-ESS-Neutron-Data
Jul 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
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