James Murty
Senior Digital Engineer at Mona - Museum of Old and New Art
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Murty is a Senior Digital Engineer based in Hobart with 14 years of experience building reliable web applications and architectures across research institutes, startups, agencies, and enterprise environments. He combines pragmatic engineering with strong delivery instincts—knowing how to build systems that work, scale, and are delivered on time—and often acts as a technical lead or translator between teams and stakeholders. Proficient across Python, Java, AWS, Django, Ruby on Rails, PHP and integration tech like TIBCO, he has modernized stacks and built high-performance components in production. His open-source QA work improving test coverage and cross-platform robustness for projects like transcrypt and git-fat shows a focus on quality and edge-case handling rather than headline features. A curious collaborator who asks the right questions to ensure the team builds the right thing, he aims to leave a measurable improvement wherever he works. Trained in both software engineering and philosophy, he brings analytical rigor and pragmatic empathy to design and delivery.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Philosophy, BA (Hons), Philosophy at University of Tasmania
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Github Skills (22)
git10
scripting10
testing10
command-line-interface10
bash10
script10
command-line10
sh10
shell10
encryption10
test-automation10
cli10
dom9
xml9
rsync8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elasticdog/transcrypt
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
transparently encrypt files within a git repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 197 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the test suite for the `transcrypt` repository. They added and modified test helper functions, and enhanced the test coverage. These modifications included updating existing tests, adding new test cases related to core functionality and improving test security, by adding safeguards to ensure tests are run on the correct git repository. The user also made changes to handle edge cases in file names.
cryptographygit-repositorysecuritysecretsencryption
jedbrown/git-fat
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Simple way to handle fat files without committing them to git, supports synchronization using rsync
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure of the git-fat project. They focused on enhancing existing test scripts, ensuring compatibility across different operating systems (OSX), and adding new test cases to cover critical functionalities like the `verify` command. Their work included refactoring test setups, introducing checks for error conditions in uninitialized repositories, and verifying the correct behavior of the `git fat` commands. This ensured the robustness and reliability of the git-fat project.
without-filesversion-controlrsyncsynchronizationmercurial
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