Daniel Murphy
Senior Program Manager, Contributor Success DevRel Strategy
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Murphy is a Senior Program Manager leading Contributor Success and DevRel strategy at GitLab, combining six years of hands-on engineering and community-building to make open source contribution more efficient and inclusive. A founding member of GitLab’s Contributor Success team, he has halved time-to-first-contribution for new users, led the platform’s first UX study of contributors, and coordinated AI feature testing to improve GitLab Duo. He cut his teeth as a maintainer and curriculum author at The Odin Project, helping scale the learning community to over a million users while writing and refining front-end CSS curriculum and exercises. Comfortable across full-stack development, DevRel, and program strategy, he pairs technical fluency with mentorship and remote-first leadership. Daniel’s background in English and teaching informs his clear documentation and community education approach, making complex workflows approachable for diverse contributors. Based in New Jersey, he blends product-driven impact with a passion for growing open source ecosystems.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science (BS), Philosophy, English, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelors of Science (BS), Philosophy, English, Summa Cum Laude at Towson UniversityMaster of Arts (MA), English, Writing, Master of Arts (MA), English, Writing at Monmouth University
Github Skills (3)
html10
css10
grid-layout10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TheOdinProject/css-exercises
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 47 commits, 25 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to front-end development, focusing on creating and refining CSS layouts. Their commits involved implementing HTML and CSS for various grid-based layouts, as demonstrated by the changes in index.html and style.css files across multiple exercises. They also added and modified solution files, demonstrating an understanding of providing correct CSS solutions to the exercises.
dm-murphy/curriculum
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
The open curriculum for learning web development
Contributions:57 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 3 months
curriculumcssjavascriptnodejslearning-web-development
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