Colleen Murphy
Software Engineer at Google
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColleen Murphy is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, identity systems, and security tooling, currently contributing to Google’s Open Source Security team on Sigstore. She has deep backend and DevOps expertise demonstrated by significant contributions to Kubernetes security (Security Profiles Operator), Rancher, and cosign—work that spans CRD/controller design, secure cluster integration, and private registry handling. At SUSE she led critical OpenStack identity work (Keystone), designing Application Credentials and overhauling RBAC to improve multitenancy and operability while also maintaining packaging and lifecycle tooling. Colleen combines pragmatic operator-style engineering with security-first thinking, having implemented seccomp profile management and SELinux packaging for real-world deployments. She is comfortable leading cross-project initiatives and mentoring teams, with a track record of making complex distributed systems safer and more manageable. Based in Portland, Oregon, she brings a strong open-source ethos and a habit of making infrastructure more auditable and automatable behind the scenes.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Portland State UniversityOccidental College
c++/c, php, ruby, html/css, javascript, bash
Github Skills (57)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
puppeteer10
docker10
seccomp10
python10
controller10
api-design10
restful-api10
apidoc10
sec10
puppet10
testing10
django10
it-security10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:645 reviews, 477 commits, 397 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Colleen's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Rancher platform's Kubernetes integration, specifically around GKE cluster support. Their work involved implementing support for creating and managing GKE cloud credentials, which included modifying the machine driver controller and adding API support. Furthermore, the user addressed issues in the cluster template rendering for agent environment variables, ensuring correct deployment configurations. Finally, the user made changes to support the use of private GKE clusters within Rancher's management interface.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
openstack/keystone
Mar 2016 - Oct 2020
OpenStack Identity (Keystone). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:301 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Colleen primarily contributed to the keystone project by addressing documentation errors, improving error messages, and implementing new functionality in the API. They corrected inaccuracies in the developer documentation, fixed command path issues, and provided more comprehensive tests to better validate backend filter behavior. They also implemented the HEAD method for all v3 GET actions, added functionality for OpenStack's SAML API, and added code to ensure that the token ID is returned in the X-Subject-Token header.
vcenterkeystoneopendevidentityopenstack
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