R Murray
Vice President at Python Software Foundation
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolR Murray is a seasoned software leader and Python core developer with 23 years of experience, combining hands-on backend engineering, documentation craftsmanship, and systems administration. As Vice President at Murray and Walker, Inc. he delivers Python application development, Linux/Unix integration, and IT consulting while also maintaining the Python email package and contributing to CPython, PEPs, and the developer guide. His long tenure in the Python community includes deep, historical knowledge (programming since Python 1.4) and practical QA/test automation work on widely used projects like setuptools. Colleagues rely on him for clear, precise documentation and for quietly fixing tricky standard-library bugs in modules like email and csv. Based in Amherst, MA, he couples academic grounding in computer mathematics with rare institutional memory of Python’s evolution, making him a pragmatic steward of core tooling and libraries.
23 years of coding experience
BA, Computer Mathematics, BA, Computer Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
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asyncio9
buildbot9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
python/devguide
Mar 2011 - Nov 2015
The Python developer's guide
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:R primarily contributed to the documentation of the Python developer's guide. They clarified instructions for creating feature branches, updated build dependency instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, and added content related to buildbot console, IRC notices, and running buildslaves. They also added and corrected entries in the "motivations" section.
python-developerpython
idobatter/cpython
Apr 2009 - Nov 2013
Semi-official read-only mirror of the CPython Mercurial repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:R primarily contributed to the CPython repository by addressing bugs and improving the codebase related to the `email` and `csv` modules. They fixed issues related to parameter handling and clarified documentation, specifically improving the clarity around `get_param` usage within the email module. Additionally, they addressed a bug in the `csv` module, concerning the generation of error messages with non-string keys in DictWriter. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the Python standard library.
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