Erik Murphy-chutorian
Founder at Springcraft
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolErik Murphy-Chutorian is a founder and engineering leader with nine years of senior experience building platform technologies in AI, AR, 3D capture, and computer vision from research to global products. He founded 8th Wall to define WebAR, scaled it to enterprise adoption and exit, then led AR and 3D initiatives at Niantic—shipping web-based VPS, AR Ads, Scaniverse improvements and Gaussian Splatting work. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering, product and GTM, he repeatedly assembles cross-functional teams to take deep technical ideas into production. A PhD-trained computer vision researcher, he cut his teeth shaping Google Photos and Image Search features used by hundreds of millions, and now runs Springcraft from Palo Alto. Notably, his career blends academic rigor with operator execution—turning advanced vision and rendering research into developer platforms and commercial businesses.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Engineering modified by Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Engineering modified by Physics at Dartmouth College
Stackoverflow
691reputation
57kreached
1answer
1question
macos
top-5%
windows
top-5%
Github Skills (59)
libgit210
cap10
build-system10
serialization10
proto10
rpc10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
version-control10
extensible10
emscripten10
webassembly10
c-library10
high-performance10
cpp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
8thwall/capnproto
Oct 2016 - Aug 2021
Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system
Contributions:28 PRs, 21 pushes, 29 branches in 4 years 11 months
rpcprotobufprotoserializationcap
erikmchut/playground
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 180 pushes, 122 branches in 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.