James McPherson
Data wrangler, software engineer, systems programmer, cyclist. Unix (mostly Solaris) for aeons. I talk C, Python, SQL, Performance, Java, Kafka and Makefiles.
Education
BA (Mathematics, Modern History), University of Queensland
Work
Senior Data Wrangler at CoreLogic International
Recent comments
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