John Murray
Engineering Manager - Knowledge Graphs & AI at Klarna
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolJohn Murray is an engineering manager based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and production systems across fintech, proptech and SaaS. He currently leads Knowledge Graphs & AI at Klarna after running merchant and in-store engineering, combining hands-on technical judgement with people leadership. Previously as CTO of Leadhome he grew a 25-person cross-functional organisation that shipped high-impact products—customer tools used by 150k+ monthly users and an automation platform that dramatically boosted broker sales—before acquisition. His background spans full-stack and cloud-native architectures (.NET Core, Node, React, Kubernetes, AWS) and large-scale platform migrations, giving him a strong bias for scalable, reliable systems. He also mentors founders (Google Launchpad) and has deep experience translating business requirements into measurable engineering outcomes. Notably, his career blends early technical teaching and hands-on development with later strategic leadership, making him comfortable from coding to C-suite conversations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Actuarial Science Mathematics Economics (incomplete), B.Sc Actuarial Science Mathematics Economics (incomplete) at University of Cape TownB.Eng Electronic Engineering (incomplete), B.Eng Electronic Engineering (incomplete) at Stellenbosch UniversityWeb Development Database Design & Admin, Web Development Database Design & Admin at New Horizons Cape Town
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
aurora10
database-management9
database-deployment9
database-migrations9
migration9
redgate9
flyway9
database8
toolkits8
dotnet8
dotnet-core8
sql8
rest8
database-administration8
db28
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avesse/Force.com-Toolkit-for-NET
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
The Force.com Toolkits for .NET provides an easy way for .NET developers to interact with the Force.com & Chatter REST APIs using native libraries.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
native-librariesdotnetinteractc-sharpcsharp
leadhomesa/postgis2geojson
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Extract PostGIS tables as GeoJSON and TopoJSON
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
postgisgeojsongistopojson
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