John Murphy
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RockstarJohn Murphy is a Staff Software Engineer in Minneapolis with 15 years building cloud-native, backend-first systems and developer platforms. He specializes in Go, Ruby and C/C++, and has driven production-grade projects spanning Kubernetes operators, Terraform providers, and large-scale telemetry systems at companies like Heroku, Replicated, and Optum. John has a strong DevOps pedigree—automating image tagging, SBOM generation and signing, and refactoring critical datastores and provider configurations to improve testability and maintainability. He’s an active open-source contributor (notably to Ketch, KOTS, Fleet and the Oracle Terraform provider) who pairs pragmatic engineering with platform-level thinking to reduce operational toil for teams and data scientists. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, code and review standards, and for delivering resilient systems across cloud and air-gapped environments.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (46)
oracle-cloud10
kubernetes10
docker10
tagging10
cloud-infrastructure10
autodeploy10
dockers10
terraform-provider10
cicd10
terraform10
gitops10
terraformer10
infrastructure10
azure-deployment10
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
theketchio/ketch
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Ketch is an application delivery framework that facilitates the deployment and management of applications on Kubernetes using a simple command line interface
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 38 commits, 19 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:John's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Ketch application delivery framework. Their contributions include adding new features such as the ability to specify a Kubernetes namespace when adding or updating a pool and fixing an issue where Ketch would hang on start up. They also made improvements to the codebase through consistent app positional arguments, and code review changes. The user was responsible for incorporating updates to the application's configuration options.
command-line-interfacekubernetes
kolide/fleet
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
A flexible control server for osquery fleets
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on refactoring the datastore, migrating from Gorm to Sqlx, which involved significant changes to table structures and the addition of SQL bundling commands. They implemented a go-kit logger and soft delete capabilities, updating the README, and integrating code review feedback. Furthermore, the user refactored database migrations to utilize goose, and added built-in labels, demonstrating expertise in database management and data layer design.
osquerysecurityhost-instrumentationinfosecmacadmin
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