Killian Murphy
VP Of Engineering at Guild.ai
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKillian Murphy is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building developer platforms, cloud services, and AI-driven developer tools, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Guild.ai in San Francisco. He has led large organizations at Meta—owning Developer Experience, platforms like Source Control, CI, and an AI productivity product CodeCompose—and previously drove product and cloud initiatives at VMware and Credit Suisse. Comfortable across the full stack, he remains hands-on writing software to stay close to engineers, partners and customers and to better shape product decisions. His background spans startups to hyperscale environments, giving him a rare fluency in product, engineering and go-to-market functions. Known for shipping sophisticated, infrastructure-heavy systems (including early Cloud Foundry work and large private cloud deployments), he blends deep technical judgment with commercial and regulatory savvy. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical problems into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Mod) Computer Science, BA(Mod) Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (14)
foundry10
google-chrome-extension10
deploying10
tabs-management10
tab-management10
tooltips9
sap-cap9
google-chrome9
cloud-foundry9
keyboard-navigation9
chrome-extension8
chrome7
pcf4
documentation2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
killian/Glean
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
System for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code.
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
crosswordderivingcollectingfactsabstract-syntax-tree
killian/llama.cpp
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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