Elliot Murphy
VP, Engineering at Posit PBC
Cocoa, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarElliot Murphy is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 18 years building and operating production-grade distributed systems, cloud platforms, and regulated SaaS. As VP of Engineering at Posit he leads teams delivering cloud-hosted data science tooling, and through Kindly Ops he helps biotech and fintech firms automate compliance, run independent security assessments, and reduce operational toil on AWS. His background spans senior roles at Canonical and MySQL where he scaled international teams, ran large budgets, and shipped core infrastructure services. A hands-on engineer and open-source contributor, Elliot has optimized critical libraries such as the RoaringBitmap Go implementation used by InfluxDB and DataDog, demonstrating deep algorithmic and systems-level expertise. He pairs technical depth with people-first leadership, emphasizing practical risk analysis (FAIR/NIST) and incident readiness for regulated environments. Based in Cocoa, Florida, he brings a rare blend of enterprise-scale ops experience and startup founder grit.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, American Sign Language
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Github Skills (10)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
go10
data-structure10
bitset10
database9
indexing9
databases9
connect6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
RoaringBitmap/roaring
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Roaring bitmaps in Go (golang), used by InfluxDB, Bleve, DataDog
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the core logic of the roaring bitmap library. Their contributions involved consolidating redundant code, simplifying existing functions, and fixing bugs related to intersection calculations and container operations. They also added functionality for calculating serialized size and ensured correct interface conversions. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of the underlying data structures and algorithms used within the library.
golangcreditsoftware-designelasticroaring-bitmaps
kindlyops/homebrew-tap
May 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
macoshomebrewhomebrew-tap
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