Get to know me

📍 Leeds, UK

Professional Experience

Why Me?

What Sets Me Apart

Josh McMurdo

I like building cool stuff, sure. But I also like seeing folk step out their comfort zone and solve problems they never thought they could. I find debugging people and processes just as fulfilling as making a pot of coffee, sticking on Lofi Girl, blocking out my calendar, and spending all day troubleshooting a bug in the code.

Advocate

I want to advocate for developing on Google technologies and show off the art of the possible. Let's get you building!

Enable

I want to enable folk to be smarter in their day jobs and explore what is possible. Powder your work with AI or use Apps Script and functions to integrate and automate everything.

Build

I want to build cool products using Firebase to bring AI and exciting solutions to people's fingertips ✨

Career Journey

Professional Experience

My career path through various organizations in the technology sector.

Netpremacy

Netpremacy

Development Manager

Current

2023 - Present

Formalised the role of Development Manager at Netpremacy to solidify, promote and expand our development offerings and lead and mentor the team.

  • Applied for, and was awarded, Google's Application Development Partner Specialisation 🎉
  • Implemented team processes and structure (Scrum)
  • Formalised solution offerings working with Product and Commercial teams
  • Bespoke development for customers from automations to full web apps
  • Product development internally for web apps
  • Internal automation, scripting and integrations with cross team collaboration
  • Software Architecture for all projects
  • Expanded the team through hiring
  • Provide personal development plans and mentorship for developers at all levels
  • Introduced new tools and processes for the team (Asana, Harvest, Confluence)
  • Have taken the team to Google conferences, for learning and expanding our name within the Google development space

Customer Success Manager

2020 - 2023

Netpremacy is Google's Global Workspace Partner. I was a Customer Success point of contact for our premium Enterprise customers for all things Google

  • Stakeholder Management for Director/C-Suite level for large enterprise household names
  • Solution & software design, with consultation around implementation at Enterprise level
  • Google Workspace consultancy
  • Lead workshops on Google Workspace solution implementation org wide
  • Point of contact for large organisations for all things Google
Bromcom

Bromcom

Senior Software Developer

2020 - 2020

Designed and Implemented G Suite integration into the Bromcom MIS system front end and back end

  • User Provisioning from MIS into G Suite
  • Group Provisioning from MIS into Google Groups
  • Classroom Sync from MIS into Google Classroom
  • Calendar Sync from MIS diary into Google Calendar
RM Education

RM Education

Software Architect

2018 - 2020

Software Architect for RM Unify, an Identity Management platform servicing every student/member of school staff in Scotland and ~20% of English schools.

  • Lead design on next generation platform improvement
  • - Login Flow/SSO, UI, New functionality, Platform Integration
  • Designing platform integrations and efficiency improvements with G Suite/O365
  • Built several POCs using Azure/GCP Cognitive services for safeguarding/insights
  • Translating stakeholder needs into actionable PBIs
  • Part of a global team which migrated from Kanban to Scrum methodology
  • - Helped migrate tooling to Azure Devops
  • Main platform experience in C# with smaller projects in Python and Javascript
  • DevOps experience (SQL, Azure, GCP, O365, Powershell, Javascript)
  • - Resolving support tickets escalated from 3rd line support
Technologies

My Tech Stack

Technologies and tools I've worked with throughout my career.

JavaScript
JavaScript
TypeScript
TypeScript
Firebase
Firebase
Google Cloud
Google Cloud
Google
Google
Next.js
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS
D3
D3
C#
C#
SQL
SQL
Asana
Asana
Chrome
Chrome
Confluence
Confluence
Apps Script
Apps Script
Google Gemini
Google Gemini
Vertex AI
Vertex AI

Personal

What else do I do?

I love dirty music.

🌍Djent
🇬🇧UK Garage/Bassline
🇬🇧Grime/Drill
🌍World Bass
🇬🇧DnB/Jungle
🌍Metalcore

My favourite artists are Periphery, Ezra Collective, and Clozee.


Below are some other hobbies.

Josh McMurdo
Farsi

Farsi

I am currently learning Farsi after a few years break where I forgot so much of it 😫 So far I've been using Grokv3 as my tutor and it's doing a fantastic job!

Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Cyberpunk

The Cyberpunk universe fascinates me - both the games and the show. I rarely play video games but when I do, I always reach for Cyberpunk and spend most of the time basking in the neon-lit streets of Night City.

Glasgow Rangers

Glasgow Rangers

I was born loving Rangers and I'll die loving them too. I don't live in Scotland anymore so Ibrox feels very far away but the Rangers family is large and you can always find a place to watch the game and cheer them on!