Michael Murray
Founder at Beehive Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Murray is a founder and veteran CTO with 18+ years building consumer products and engineering teams, best known for leading Digit as CTO through an acquisition by Oportun for $211M. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning Ruby/Rails, Node.js, realtime systems, and scalable media pipelines—with product-driven architecture and hiring/management expertise. After Digit he founded Beehive Engineering, a software boutique and maker of Cabin Vinyl, continuing to ship focused products and consulting work from San Francisco. His career includes building large ingestion and encoding systems, real-time social features, and distributed processing at companies like Howcast, Blurb, and Schematic Labs. A MIT computer science graduate, he pairs deep technical chops with a founder’s instinct for product-market fit and operational scaling. Notably, he has repeatedly turned complex content and personalization problems into production systems that scale across web, mobile, and API clients.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyRathmore Grammar School
English
Github Skills (23)
send-sms9
sms8
phone-number7
resque7
sketchup7
validate5
libphonenumber5
mobile5
nodejs5
http-response5
api4
queue4
redis3
typescript3
ruby3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sudothinker/node-phone
Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
With a given country and phone number, validate and format the phone number to E.164 standard
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 5 months
libphonenumberphone-numberphonevalidate
sudothinker/multimodel-forms
Apr 2008 - Apr 2012
Contributions:5 commits in 4 years
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