Russell Dunphy
Head Of Engineering at Waltham Forest Migrant Action
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRussell Dunphy is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on software development experience and a deep focus on healthcare and social-good startups. Currently Head of Engineering at Koru Kids and co-founder of Case Kit, he blends strategic leadership with regular hands-on coding, having previously scaled teams and systems at HealthUnlocked and Accurx. He’s driven measurable improvements in reliability and delivery—cutting error rates tenfold, slashing response times, and moving teams to multiple daily releases—while introducing DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and strong frontend engineering practices. A long-term volunteer technologist and trustee for migrant and sanctuary organisations, he pairs technical craft with a commitment to civic impact. Notably comfortable across Clojure, Typescript/React, and AWS tooling, he also champions developer ergonomics through code generation, modularisation, and shared-package workflows.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Creative Writing, BA Creative Writing at University of LeedsChrist the King, Southport
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Github Skills (200)
material-ui10
vim10
visual-studio10
browser10
nodejs10
utilities10
material-design10
crowd10
facebook10
conversations10
date-fns10
javascript10
capistrano10
plugin10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
casekit/orm
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:68 PRs, 165 pushes, 77 branches in 7 months
wfmigrantaction/wfmigrantaction.github.io
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 92 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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