James Murphy
Tech Principal at AND Digital
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Murphy is a Tech Principal with over a decade of hands-on, polyglot engineering experience and a track record of leading large-scale cloud and platform transformations for organisations including BBC, Booking.com, Autotrader, The Hut Group, HMRC and Vodafone. He combines deep technical fluency across Java, Scala, Node.js, AWS and serverless patterns with strategic advisory work for C-suite clients, coaching teams and setting engineering best practices. At AND Digital he leads backend chapters across 800+ engineers and routinely bridges delivery, architecture and risk for high-stakes replatforming efforts and regulated systems. He’s equally comfortable writing production microservices and mentoring engineers in TDD, pair programming and code review culture. Outside client work he advises startups as a non-executive director, bringing startup agility to enterprise-grade delivery. A pragmatic technologist, he learned Scala in-production and scored 96% on Lightbend’s professional exam, showing a commitment to continuous technical growth.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The University of ManchesterTrinity Comprehensive School
Github Skills (82)
pm29
command-line-tool9
pool9
binding9
nodejs9
high-performance8
mocks8
jackson8
monitoring8
testing8
java-api8
command-line8
connection-pool8
mailgun-api8
loader8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
murphyj/mailgunner
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 6 months
apinode-jsjavascriptmailgun-apistandalone
dojonorth/maze-search-algorithms
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 28 days
pythondojosolvingdimensionaloptimisation-algorithms
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