Murray Steele
Senior Software Engineer at CaptionHub
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMurray Steele is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 18 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and improving developer tooling. He has led engineering teams at Cleo and contributed production-critical code to widely used open-source projects such as RuboCop and the ActiveRecord SQL Server adapter, focusing on database compatibility, edge-case bug fixes, and code-quality automation. Murray’s strengths lie in pragmatic engineering—shipping robust fixes, refactoring APIs, and adding test coverage to ensure long-term maintainability. He pairs hands-on development with people leadership, having progressed from developer to engineering manager while retaining a deep focus on backend and database internals. Off-hours he’s known for a dry sense of humour and an unusual life goal: to visit the moon.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MA (Hons) Computing, MA (Hons) Computing at University of Aberdeen
English, doric
Github Skills (23)
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
modeler10
rspec10
rails10
modello10
software-quality10
ruby10
sql-server10
sql10
database-design10
linter10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
modeling10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Dec 2012 - Mar 2018
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:831 commits, 72 PRs, 74 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Murray's commits focus on implementing and refining features related to the management of document sources within the Whitehall application, which publishes government content on GOV.UK. Their work involves adding functionality to add, edit, and remove legacy URLs for documents, as well as enhancing the user interface and data models to support these features. The contributions include writing tests to validate data models.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter
May 2008 - Jun 2009
SQL Server Adapter For Rails
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:35 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Murray primarily contributed to the SQL Server adapter for Rails, focusing on database-related tasks. They addressed bugs in test cases, particularly concerning data deletion and testing. Key contributions included modifying the adapter's code to improve column handling, including adding the `change_column_null` method, and fixing issues related to data type casting and schema dumping to accommodate SQL Server's specific features and limitations. The user also addressed various edge cases and inconsistencies, such as the handling of string defaults and the correct ordering of database columns.
sql-servertinytdsrailssqlruby
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