Ken Murphy
Software Engineer at Sierra
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Murphy is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 13 years of experience building scalable back-end systems, developer tools, and modern web apps from startups to high-growth platforms. He has led large engineering efforts at Stripe and Scale AI—driving API redesigns and technical strategy for organizations of 100+ engineers—and co-founded Reflow to modernize mortgage software using AI. Comfortable across Spring Boot (Kotlin/Java), React, and infra tooling, he pairs hands-on coding with infra work (including DevOps contributions to an open-source CSGO server launcher). Based in San Francisco, Ken blends product sensibility from HCI training at Carnegie Mellon with deep systems experience, often focusing on reducing operational friction and cost per workflow. He’s equally at home designing money-movement APIs used across products as he is iterating on automation scripts and deployment pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Double Major in Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction. Minor in Communication Design., Bachelor's degree, Double Major in Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction. Minor in Communication Design. at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (16)
linux10
docker10
bash10
gameserver10
dockers10
server10
scripting9
automation9
automations9
shell9
script9
sh9
build-tools8
build-system8
release-management8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
crazy-max/csgo-server-launcher
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Counter-Strike Global Offensive Dedicated Server Launcher
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 comment in 8 days
Contributions summary:Ken primarily focused on modifying the shell script used to launch the CSGO server. They added features such as the ability to configure the tickrate, maximum players, and port. The user also implemented a "create" command to automate the installation of SteamCMD and the game server, and merged updates to the main README file. Further adjustments were made to the default configuration, changing steam login details and the default email settings.
dedicated-servergame-serverlinuxsteamcmdworkshop
sp00ls/SambaConfigs
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
Configs for a server running Samba V4 and ZFS. Automatically creates user share/time machine via linux users/groups and exposes a public share
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
linuxzfs
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