Jamie Furnaghan
Distinguished Engineer at FanDuel
Bathgate, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Furnaghan is a Distinguished Engineer with 17 years of experience building highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems, currently shaping platform architecture and delivery at FanDuel from Bathgate, Scotland. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at FanDuel from Senior Software Engineer to Director and now Distinguished Engineer, combining hands-on design and implementation with team-level strategy. His background includes senior development roles at Microsoft and early leadership of the popular FluxBB forum project, where he contributed backend security, database migration, and search-indexing improvements. Jamie pairs academic rigor from a first-class BSc in Software Engineering and PhD research experience with practical production engineering, often surfacing subtle security and reliability fixes that keep large services robust.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc hons. (first class) Software Engineering, BSc hons. (first class) Software Engineering at University of Stirling
English
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Github Skills (6)
php10
mysql10
security9
database-design9
full-text-search8
sql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fluxbb/fluxbb
Sep 2008 - Jan 2012
FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:775 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to the core functionality and maintenance of the FluxBB forum software. Their work involved updating and modifying database-related scripts, including the database update script. They also addressed bug fixes related to core features and XSS exploits, which implies a focus on the backend logic and security aspects of the forum. Additionally, the user worked on the auto-creation of the search index.
fluxbblightphpforumforums
reines/exif
May 2016 - Oct 2019
Exif Parser for Java
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
exifjavaparser
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