Paul Murray
Software Engineer at Vercel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Murray is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building data-rich front-end applications and newsroom graphics, currently contributing to Vercel’s Growth team. His background blends academic research in data visualization and bioinformatics with production work at The New York Times and Bloomberg, where he shipped interactive journalism and visual analysis tools. At the Flatiron Institute and Simons Foundation he bridged computational research and web tooling, proving comfortable translating complex scientific data into usable web interfaces. A prolific JavaScript practitioner and occasional creative coder, he gravitates toward projects that turn large, messy datasets into surprising, elegant visuals. Less obvious: his career path—from bicycle mechanic to PhD candidate to newsroom graphics developer—reflects a practical, hands-on problem-solving style and curiosity across disciplines.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois at ChicagoBachelor of Science (BS), PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Science (BS), PSYCHOLOGY at University of Mary Washington
English
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
ui-components10
svg10
shadcn-ui10
visual-studio10
webgpu10
3d10
browserify10
javascript10
radix10
editor10
webapp10
monorepo10
compiler10
webgl10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
plmrry/places-to-coords
Aug 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
CreativeCodingLab/PoetryChains
Jul 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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