Amanda Murphy
Staff Software Engineer at Hydrolix
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Murphy is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building reliable, full‑stack systems and leading engineering teams. She has a strong track record across startups and scale‑ups—driving architecture, CI/CD, observability, and integrations at companies like Bounti.ai, Heap, and New Relic—and now leads technical efforts at Hydrolix. Amanda combines low‑level systems experience (C agents, high‑throughput data ingestion) with modern stacks (Rust services, React frontends, Postgres, Auth0/Okta) and a pragmatic focus on developer experience and incident reduction. She’s an active contributor to open-source integration tooling, notably enhancing Segment’s Actions destinations with backend and full‑stack work. Known for stepping into interim management roles and improving operational metrics, she pairs hands‑on engineering with coaching and process improvements that scale teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at Portland State UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Information Systems, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Information Systems at Portland Community College
Github Skills (18)
apim10
javascript10
api-design10
typescript10
integrations10
analytics10
api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
jes9
jtest9
jestjs9
git7
debugging6
debug6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/action-destinations
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Action Destinations are the new way to build streaming destinations on Segment.
Role in this project:
Backend & Full-stack Developer
Backend & Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 5 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Amanda contributed significantly to the Segment Actions framework, focusing on adding and modifying destinations for various services like Heap. They implemented new features, such as integrating Heap tracking, session IDs, and user properties. The user also worked on improving the existing code base, including bug fixes, updating libraries, and refining tests within the destination actions framework.
destinationsstreamingsegment
murphpdx/TrailGuide
Jun 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 4 months
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