Paul Murray
Storage Analyst at RBC
United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPaul Murray is a seasoned Storage Analyst with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing and automating enterprise storage and Unix/Linux environments, currently focused on global storage at RBC. He specialises in Dell EMC Symmetrix VMAX/POWERMAX, VPLEX (Local and Metro), Brocade fabrics and layered management tools, and complements infrastructure work with Perl and Python automation plus MySQL/MongoDB experience. Paul emphasises cost-efficient, resilient solutions and has a track record of streamlining management tools, automating end-to-end provisioning and generating audit-capable reporting. His background spans financial and pharmaceutical sectors, where he’s delivered advanced data protection and business continuity measures. As an open-source contributor he has fixed resource-tracking bugs in OpenStack Nova, showing attention to correctness in distributed compute resource accounting. He brings a pragmatic, operations-first mindset that blends deep systems knowledge with engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
laravel-nova10
ova10
openstack10
backend10
resource-management10
python10
back-end-development10
testing9
documentation8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on fixing a resource tracking issue within the OpenStack Nova compute service. They addressed a double-counting problem related to virtual CPUs by resetting the count and modifying tests to provide correct resource usage metrics. Additionally, they contributed to documentation, updating the server concepts guide to clarify server actions, including migration, resize, and shelving. Finally, the user refactored the codebase by removing unnecessary JSON encoding for 'supported_instances' across multiple virt drivers.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
quattronetworks/code-generator
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Generators for kube-like API types
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 10 branches in 4 days
apikubernetesgeneratorskube
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