James Mcmurray
Data Research Engineer
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mcmurray is a seasoned Data Research Engineer with 14 years building reliable data platforms and pipelines across companies like Spotify, Amazon, Glovo and now Fundamental. He combines strong engineering chops in Python, Rust and SQL (Redshift/Postgres/BigQuery) with hands-on AWS serverless experience, shipping production-grade ETL, forecasting models and revenue/ledger integrations for finance teams. At Spotify he drove accounting-grade ARPU and Netsuite ingestion work, and at Amazon he implemented Rust+Lambda pipelines and high-volume survey tooling—evidence of a practical multi-language mindset. He also leads engineering hygiene at scale (linting, testing, DW scaling, Looker metrics) and has hired and designed take-home assessments for data hires. Based in Stockholm, he maintains an active Rust hobbyist practice and writes about his work on a personal engineering blog.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Physics, MPhys, Physics at University of ExeterThomas Bennett Community College
English, Spanish, German, Esperanto
Github Skills (200)
cms10
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python10
hadoop10
wireguard10
scheduling10
chat10
excel10
3d10
linter10
namespaces10
game-development10
dependency-resolution10
rust-language10
rust-lang10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jamesmcm/arch-i3-usb
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Preset files to create a fully functional, persistent live USB installation of Arch Linux with i3 via ALMA
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
archlinuxusb
jamesmcm/async-rust-example
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Example of async programming in Rust
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
asyncrust
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