Brian Murphy
Chief Scientist at ReliaQuest
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBrian Murphy is a Chief Scientist with over 15 years of deep expertise in big data, security telemetry, and search infrastructure, having been the first hire at Splunk and inventor of its original log search engine. He has led technical strategy and shipped production products across Splunk, Elasticsearch (creator of Watcher alerting), Loggly, and multiple startups, blending hands-on systems engineering with technical project leadership. At ReliaQuest he now builds next-generation cybersecurity platforms that leverage LLMs and generative AI to automate detection, investigation, and remediation while rethinking SIEM-era architectures via data stitching. Comfortable leading distributed teams, he combines low-level systems work (C/C++, Java) with cloud-native data stacks (Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, AWS) and applied ML (TensorFlow/Keras) to turn noisy telemetry into actionable insight. An unusual thread through his career is repeatedly taking skunkworks ideas (Watcher, early Splunk search) from prototype to globally used production features.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Limerick
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Github Skills (17)
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
tabletop7
virtual-tabletop7
transifex6
multiplayer5
database4
cross-platform3
revit-api2
python2
cobalt2
specification2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GaelTadh/elasticsearch
Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
GaelTadh/apscheduler
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 months
pythonschedulingschedulertask-schedulingpython3
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