Curriculum Vitae - Murray Cumming

I led a team working on client endpoints and input experiences for the Stadia streaming game platform.

As team lead, I identified product requirements, designed systems, and supervised designs and implementations. I built a productive team by establishing a culture of thorough documentation, robust code, and shared understanding, providing opportunities for individual excellence.

C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart

I led a team working on:

• User interface for electronic exercise machines (C++, Qt, gRPC, CMake, Docker)
• Backend services (Go, Java, Scala, Kubernetes, gRPC, OpenCensus, Stackdriver).

I drove a process of discovery, documentation, and refactoring. This created a stable well-understood platform on which we built new features while ensuring reliability for our many active users.

I maintained a culture of quality, respect, and purpose, ensuring that developers felt supported by each other to create lasting work they could be proud of.

Management

I built a team of highly skilled Linux C++, Java, and C software developers around a culture of communication and responsibility, working with customers such as Nokia, Intel, OLPC, and Canonical.

I recruited and trained personnel, anticipating future needs while pursuing new business. I created detailed technical proposals and schedules in response to customer requirements, then managed projects to completion. I also managed finances across our two locations in Munich and Berlin.

Development

I often joined our agile teams as a developer and documentation writer, striving for clearly designed and thoroughly tested software. I worked on these projects:

• Modest email client for Maemo (C, GTK+, tinymail)
• qtcontacts-tracker (C++, Qt, tracker, RDF)
• libmeegotouch (C++, Qt)
• Maliit input method framework and virtual keyboard (C++, Qt)
• Rygel DLNA/UPnP framework (C, Vala)
• Onine-Glom (Java, GWT, PostgreSQL)
• Glom (C++, gtkmm, Python, Boost, PostgreSQL)

Creation of a smartcard development IDE and utilities. Visual C++.

Development of highly usable bespoke Relational Database Systems. Filemaker Pro, Visual C++.

Complete overhaul and improvement of Transaction and Stock management database.

Bespoke Relational Database solutions, using FileMaker Pro.

DTP using Quark, PhotoShop, etc on MacOS.

DTP / Data Entry / Administration

Goethe-Institut

German: Goethe-Zertifikat C1

Edinburgh University, UK

Politics, Psychology, Social Policy: First year only.

New College, Swindon, UK

A Levels

1A, 3Bs, 1C

The Commonweal School, Swindon, UK

GCSE's

8As, 1B

The official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+.
Linux/Unix/Windows library.

Lead Developer

C++ signal/slots template-based library used by gtkmm.

Lead developer

Generic GUI Database design and editor application, for PostgreSQL,
built in C++ with GNOME technologies for Linux.

Lead Developer

Official Android citizen science app for classifying Galaxy Zoo subjects.
Java, Volley, REST, JSON.

Lead Developer

Official iPhone / iPad citizen science app for classifying Galaxy Zoo subjects.
Objective-C, REST, JSON.

Lead Developer

Website offering computer science quizzes, tracking personal progress.
Java, GWT, GWTP, AppEngine, Objectify.

Lead Developer

Member of the GNOME Release Team

I helped to establish time-based releases, integrating multiple projects with little explicit coordination, via a reliable repeating 6-monthly schedule of beta releases, API freezes, UI freezes, string freezes, code freezes, etc, and quality guidelines.

Member of the GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors

I helped to organize the GUADEC conference and shared ongoing administration.