Kevin Murphy
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Brightbeam
The Municipal District of Dungarvan — Lismore, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Murphy is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer and founder with 11 years of mobile-first experience delivering 30+ Android and iOS apps across HealthCare, Banking, EdTech and Insurance. He combines hands-on architecture work—re-architecting apps to MVVM/Clean, introducing Kotlin Multiplatform and modern UI stacks like Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI—with product-minded delivery in HIPAA-compliant environments. Kevin has driven meaningful user impact (e.g., raising an Android app rating from 3.0 to 4.3 and supporting a medical app with 200k monthly users) while reducing technical debt and improving test coverage. A committed accessibility advocate, he founded Dyslexia.ai and built Lexy, a literacy companion used in 120 countries, inspired by his own dyslexia. He is also an active open-source contributor (notably to the Tapadoo Alerter Android library) and a pragmatic team lead who mentors engineers and improves CI/CD and quality processes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University College CorkLeaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, Youghal
English, English
Github Skills (10)
android-library10
alertdialog10
javas10
alertifyjs10
android-ui10
alertview10
alerts10
android10
java10
material-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Tapadoo/Alerter
Feb 2017 - Sep 2021
An Android Alerting Library
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 releases, 5 reviews, 345 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `alerter` library, an Android alerting library. Their work focused on enhancing the library's functionality and improving the user interface. The commits include implementing features to control icon pulsing, adding callbacks, adding options to customize the layout, and incorporating a progress bar, which demonstrates a focus on UI/UX enhancements. The user also addressed some of the performance and code quality issues present in the code.
android-uicustomisationandroidstudiogoogleandroid-library
kpmmmurphy/FinalYearProject
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:264 commits, 170 pushes, 1 issue in 7 months
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