Frank Murphy

Skills

  • Deep experience with Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Scala, Go, and C.
  • Full stack experience writing, integrating, and deploying services.
  • DevOps experience deploying production applications at scale in AWS and GCP.
    (GKE, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, Dynamo, SQS, Kinesis, IAM, GCS, Cloud SQL, BigQuery)
  • Experience using devops tools and container technologies.
    (kubernetes, terraform, awscli, docker, docker-compose)
  • Development, debugging, and profiling experience with SQL and ORMs.
    (PostgreSQL, SQLite, ActiveRecord, Diesel)
  • Integration experience with common NoSQL data stores.
    (redis, elasticsearch, cassandra)

Employment History

wallaroo.ai

Staff Software Engineer 2021 - present (fully remote)
  • Owned and maintained core technologies including our inference server and data recording system.
  • Led whole-product multi-service projects:
    • Migrating our data transfer format from proprietary JSON to Apache Arrow to dramatically reduce latency (30-35% in key CV use cases).
    • Integrating LLM performance improvements like autoscaling, dynamic batching, and concurrent batching into all of the services that manage deployments.
  • Planned, coordinated, and negotiated major feature additions and updates with the product organization. Negotiated scope to deliver maximum user value within hard schedule and resource constraints.
  • Architected and coordinated feature development across teams. Led planning efforts and mentored junior developers.
  • Advocated for and modelled best development practices, including Infrastructure as Code, Design for Test, and test scope (e.g. Test Pyramid).

Censys

Senior Software Engineer 2020 - 2021 (flex)
  • Developed and deployed a custom DNS server in Rust, used by our scanning platform to identify open and malicious DNS resolvers across the Internet.
  • Designed, prototyped, and tested an L4 operating system fingerprinting microservice in Go.
  • Helped scale our Scala services and Go data pipeline in GCS to support scanning the entire IPv4 address space on a daily cadence.
  • Coordinated across teams and owned data analysis in BigQuery for rapid response to emerging threats.
  • Led several projects, overseeing the development team while working tightly with the product organization to find the right scope for our timeline.
  • Wrote documentation, tests, supporting scripts, and configuration to enhance local development workflows for services in a fast-moving startup environment.

Instructure

Senior Software Engineer 2016 - 2020 (fully remote)
  • Responsible for planning, costing, developing, and deploying large new features for Instructure's core open source product, Canvas .
  • Helped architect and oversee the transition of the standards system from inside the Canvas monolith to a decoupled Ruby on Rails service.
  • Profiled and debugged ActiveRecord queries running on Postgres to fix performance issues.
  • Helped to develop an entirely new standards front-end using React and Redux.
  • Prototyped, developed, and deployed a scalable quiz search feature utilizing an ElasticSearch backend.
  • Communicated with product and program management to scope features for maximum user value.
  • Deployed and maintained complex software in AWS at scale, used daily by millions of concurrent users.
  • Wrote and ran terraform configuration for deployment of new features and services.
  • Created and maintained Dockerfiles and docker-compose configuration to aid in local development.
  • Crafted and presented technical talks for two consecutive years at the internal company conference (Pandamonium).

Arbor Networks

Software Engineer 2012 - 2016 (flex)
  • Lead development of our API initiative. Created shared Python library used by all three product teams.
  • Designed performant software to process massive (400TiB) datasets, using a blend of Python and C.
  • Integrated with redis and SQLite to create embedded and performant databases on our appliances.
  • Scaled I/O performance to handle simultaneous 10Gbps read/write across appliance clusters.
  • Found and eliminated several severe security vulnerabilities, including a pre-auth RCE affecting all products.
  • Actively advocated for and educated on best security practices, including eliminating CSRF and XSS bugs.

General Electric Aviation

Test Systems Engineer 2009 - 2012 (onsite)
  • Wrote and maintained test software and miscellaneous utilities in C and Python.
  • Integrated and debugged embedded software on the VxWorks platform.

Projects

fajita

Prototype CSG library in Rust.

petrify

CAD/CAM framework written in Python.

github

My username is AnIrishDuck .

Education

Michigan Technological University

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering with an Economics Minor.
Fall 2007 - Spring 2012 GPA: 3.64 (Graduated Cum Laude)
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