John Murphy
Principal AI Retrieval Engineer Lead at Crivella Technologies Limited
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Murphy is a Principal AI Retrieval Engineer Lead and seasoned search architect with two decades of hands-on experience building enterprise search, e-discovery, and NLP systems for complex, mission-critical datasets. He’s delivered ElasticSearch-based solutions and RAG/semantic search pipelines across roles at Elastic, Intersys, and his own ventures, combining deep expertise in ELK, vector databases, and ML-driven retrieval. Known for bridging research and production, John has led streaming, ETL, and containerized architectures while guiding offshore teams and integrating open-source Lucene customizations. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs technical leadership with practitioner-level skills—cluster tuning, data modeling, and query optimization—and an unusual background that includes legal-focused NLP and competitive hobbies like chess and Dota that reflect strategic thinking under pressure.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Point Park University
English
Github Skills (16)
pdf-generation10
restful10
pdf-reader10
search-engine10
pdf10
elasticsearch10
javascript10
opensearch10
reader10
java10
backend8
solr7
lucene6
apache5
information-retrieval4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jmorph99/Intervals
May 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
jmorph99/SpanQueryCLI
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Query parser for span queries. Should work version 6.0 and above.
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
queryquery-parserspanparserqueries
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