David Murphy
Herriman, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Murphy is a seasoned systems and backend engineer with 11+ years of professional experience and a multi-decade career delivering low-level, high-performance software for OSes, clustering, virtualization, and networking. He has deep expertise in Salt (contributing to the flagship saltstack/salt project), kernel and device driver development, directory services, and I/O performance tuning across diverse architectures. David has shepherded production-grade infrastructure software through acquisitions and large vendors (SaltStack → VMware → Broadcom), combining hands-on coding—CLI parsers, unit tests, cross-OS fixes—with pragmatic DevOps instincts. His background spans database internals and clustered DB2 work, real-time video-router and master control systems, and embedded firmware, reflecting an unusual breadth from firmware to cloud. Based in Herriman, Utah, he’s equally comfortable porting systems to new architectures as he is optimizing multi-threaded and clustered environments. Outside formal roles he describes himself as “retired” on GitHub while still contributing to and maintaining critical open-source tooling.
11 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Electrical Engineering, Math, MA, Electrical Engineering, Math at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
infrastructure-as-code10
python10
testing10
command-line9
cli9
debian9
ubuntu9
command-line-interface9
git8
version-control8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Mar 2015 - Feb 2022
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:925 reviews, 56 commits, 310 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the maintenance and enhancement of the SaltStack infrastructure management software. Their work involved code modifications within parsers and option parsers, indicating a focus on command-line interface (CLI) related functionalities. Further contributions included unit test improvements, dependency updates, and fixes related to Debian/Ubuntu. The user also implemented changes in supporting different OS's.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
dmurphy18/salt-pack
Jan 2016 - May 2020
Salt Package Builder
Contributions:401 pushes, 371 branches in 4 years 4 months
package-buildersaltbuilder
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