Brian McMurray
Director Of Product And Engineering at Kickstarter
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian McMurray is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building web and e-commerce platforms, now serving as Director of Product and Engineering at Kickstarter. He blends deep hands-on expertise across Python, Django, React, Magento and a wide array of web technologies with a track record of scaling teams at Wayfair, Formlabs, and Phase2. Brian’s background spans full-stack architecture, analytics-driven product decisions, and mobile web/iOS/Android initiatives, enabling him to bridge design, data, and engineering effectively. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he brings both agency and enterprise perspectives—having led builds from MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab to enterprise e-commerce—while keeping a developer-first focus on usability and performance. Based in Boston, he pairs technical depth in databases and front-end tooling with a talent for turning complex requirements into reliable, user-centered systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Multimedia, Bachelor's Degree Multimedia at Bradley University
German
Github Skills (45)
impressjs10
jekyll9
react5
react-router5
webpack5
razzle5
javascript4
parallel4
fusion4
preact4
server-side-rendering4
isomorphic4
drupal4
rest4
restful3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bmcmurray/hekyll
Jan 2012 - Sep 2015
a Jekyll generator for Impress.js presentations
Contributions:51 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
impressjsjekyll
bradwade/bem-in-drupal-presentation
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
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