Jacob Murphy
Staff Software Engineer at Valkey
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Murphy is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems at Google since 2020, rising from intern to staff. He helped ship low-latency, highly available Cloud Memorystore services and progressed through roles focused on scalable in-memory data platforms and reliability. Prior internships at Amazon and Google reflect strong foundations in log analytics, observability, and high-throughput engineering. As a former UW teaching assistant for software design and algorithms, he pairs hands-on system design with clear mentorship and teaching skills. He maintains open-source involvement as a project maintainer and brings a proven ability to reduce incident resolution time through instrumentation and tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who blends deep technical rigor with developer-focused tooling and operational empathy.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (46)
key-value-store10
strings10
nosql10
redis10
in-memory10
key-value10
disk10
google-cloud10
database10
lists9
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
fst9
data-model9
bigtable9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Tdoe4321/Dubhacks-2018
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes in 1 day
murphyjacob4/valkey
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
A new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis project. We're calling it Valkey, like a Valkyrie.
Contributions:86 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
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