Experienced developer of web-based applications and architectures
Portland, Oregon Area
- Past
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- Freelance integration of Amazon Web Services into web applications at "Murty Corp"
- Web Developer at Online Agility
- Author at O'Reilly & Associates
- Education
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- University of Tasmania
- University of Tasmania
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James Murty’s Summary
James Murty is a software developer with extensive experience creating web-based applications and architectures. With a working background spanning a research institute, small software houses and various corporations, he has a broad perspective on both the potential and the pitfalls in building networked applications.
He has written a book about Amazon's cloud computing services for O'Reilly: Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB. He is also the creator of JetS3t, an open source library and application suite that is the leading Java implementation for Amazon's S3 data storage service.
He is currently braving the cold by living in Portland, OR, USA.
James Murty’s Specialties:
Web applications and architectures, Amazon Web Services, Java, J2EE, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails, XML/XSLT, TIBCO.
James Murty’s Experience
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Freelance integration of Amazon Web Services into web applications
"Murty Corp"
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)
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Web Developer
Online Agility
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — October 2008 (5 months)
Developed a shop-front web site, custom data-management web
application, and supporting libraries using Python and the Django
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Author
O'Reilly & Associates
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)
Authored a programming manual for the cloud-based infrastructure services provided by Amazon Web Services -- Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
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Software Engineer (Contractor)
Axe Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Various roles including analysis, design, development and documentation in a range of projects for corporations in the telecommunications, banking and insurance sectors. Major contracts included implementation and support of live production systems based on J2EE and TIBCO technologies.
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Software Engineer
Axe Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Developed J2EE and Tibco systems for companies in the general insurance and health insurance industries, including in-house projects and on-site consultancies for corporate clients.
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Software Engineer
CSIRO
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
January 2000 — March 2003 (3 years 3 months)
Built multi-tier, distributed Java web applications that made data from diverse sources and systems available online, and provided tools to dynamically search, process, merge and display this data.
James Murty’s Education
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University of Tasmania
BA (Hons) , Philosophy , 1999 — 1999
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University of Tasmania
BComp , Software Engineering , 1996 — 1998
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