Dan Murrell
Mobile Engineering Manager at Empyrean
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDan Murrell is a mobile engineering manager in Austin with over three decades of software experience and 11 years in engineering leadership roles, currently leading the Enspire team for Empyrean’s Connect platform. He builds cross-functional teams that ship accessible, user-centered mobile and full-stack products, blending hands-on architecture (iOS/mobile) with product and client-facing engineering leadership. At BigCommerce he founded the Mobile Apps team and an Engineering Brand team, driving adoption of SwiftUI, Passkeys, and AI initiatives to modernize engineering practices. His background in communication, history, and sociology informs a people-first leadership style that prioritizes clear communication, diverse perspectives, and thoughtful technology choices. A longtime indie developer (Mutant Soup Software) and maintainer of AuroraToolkit, he brings both startup scrappiness and enterprise delivery experience. He’s known for turning complex, real-time requirements into simple, reliable user experiences while staying curious about emerging tech like AR, wearables, and auth innovations.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Indianola AcademyB.A., Communication, B.A., Communication at Mississippi State University
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Github Skills (14)
navigation-controller10
ios-application9
swift9
react-native8
react-native-component8
admob8
navigator8
react-native-navigation7
uinavigationcontroller6
uinavigationbar6
swift-package4
machine-learning3
ai3
large-language-models3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AuroraToolkit/AuroraToolkit
Dec 2024 - Apr 2026
AuroraToolkit enables AI-driven workflows, context management, and seamless integration with on-device ML and large language models (LLMs).
Contributions:8 releases, 159 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year 4 months
ailarge-language-modelsmachine-learning
danmurrelljr/FlowDemo
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
An example implementation of flow architecture using SwiftUI
Contributions:8 PRs, 18 pushes, 10 branches in 16 days
modularityswiftiosarchitectureswiftui
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