Damian Murphy
Senior Platform Engineer
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolDamian Murphy is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Adelaide with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for large-scale SaaS and gaming platforms. He specializes in Kubernetes, AWS (EKS), Prometheus-driven observability, CI/CD, and Go, and has repeatedly led migrations from legacy build systems into autoscaling container platforms. At PlayStation and previously Blackboard he focused on platform reliability and developer productivity, delivering regional Kubernetes clusters, automated build fleets, and richer infrastructure metrics. Damian combines deep Linux systems and tooling knowledge (including Rancher and NixOS) with hands-on implementation experience across the full DevOps lifecycle. He has a strong track record of turning performance and scalability challenges into repeatable infrastructure patterns that reduce waste and speed delivery. Outside of work he blends a formal background in maths and computer science with an audio engineering interest, reflecting a practical, interdisciplinary approach to engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Maths & Computer Science, BSc, Maths & Computer Science at University of AdelaideAudio Engineering Diploma, Audio Engineering, Audio Engineering Diploma, Audio Engineering at School of Audio Engineering
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Github Skills (132)
terraform10
wireguard10
tailscale10
jenkins-plugin10
monitoring10
vpn10
feed10
prometheus-alertmanager10
vault10
pagerduty10
opml10
slack10
rdf10
deduplication10
terraform-provider10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
damomurf/coredns-tailscale
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
A Tailscale lookup plugin for CoreDNS
Contributions:33 releases, 38 commits, 129 PRs in 2 months
corednstailscaledns
damomurf/keybase-alertmanager
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
A Prometheus Alertmanager Webhook processor to send Keybase alerts
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
keybaseprometheus-alertmanageralertmanagerprometheus
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