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senior fullstack engineer

KevinMurphy

Senior engineer who shipped at scale before AI was good — and builds the AI tooling himself now that it is.

FedNowFederal Reservebank onboarding 60d to 7d, 1,000+ banks

Kevin Murphy, senior fullstack engineer pivoting to Forward Deployed / Applied AI, based in Tempe, Arizona

It's raining my tech stack.

approach

  1. Typed contracts, bounded queries, observable failures, performance budgets that hold under traffic. I’ve shipped this discipline to React modernizing Michigan’s unemployment insurance for 270K residents across 2,000+ WCAG-conformant pages, ReactJS + TypeScript handling 880M IRS.gov visits and $4.7T in tax collection, and Salesforce LWC cutting bank onboarding to FedNow from 60 days to 7. Before any taste shows up, the build has to not break.

  2. Senior isn’t a title — it’s the standard you set for the team. At Deloitte I coached seven juniors and mid-level consultants; one teammate went from 40% to 95% utilization inside a year. The most durable thing I’ve shipped is the bar people kept running after I rotated off the engagement.

  3. Accessibility, performance under load, polished interaction on the first paint, an AI loop that holds together when traffic shows up — that’s what decides whether anyone actually uses what’s behind the screen. Most teams treat the user-facing layer as a delivery surface; I treat it as the proof that the rest of the build works. Motion is a passion; engineering at scale, end-to-end, is the day job.

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off the clock

a guitar player — A '57 reissue Strat. A PRS CE24. A Taylor acoustic when nobody wants to be loud., a concert chaser — Spafford. Goose. Phish. If you know, you know., a blues believer — Jimi Hendrix is my hero in life. Albert King, Muddy Waters, and yes — John Mayer's blues chops are the real deal., a rock disciple — Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. The rest fills in around them., a jazz nerd — I'm there for the improvisation, not the names. Anyone who can actually solo over the changes., a funk evangelist — Cory Wong. The Meters. James Brown. Vincen García on the modern side., a jam-band convert — Long shows where the band actually goes somewhere. Setlist forensics on the drive home., a gym regular — Strength + zone-2 cardio. Boring works., a home cook — Stainless only. No grill. Top-shelf meal preps. Working on the butter-basted ribeye., a cat dad — His name is Ralph. He runs the house. I lease space., an animation enthusiast — Ralph Breaks the Internet. The Lorax. Comfort rewatches., a student of buddhism — Pema Chödrön. Thich Nhat Hanh. Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now on a re-read every couple years., a meditation practitioner — Daily-ish. Some days I just stare at the wall., a pickleball convert — Yes I bought the paddle. Yes it was worth it., a restaurant scout — Hidden Phoenix lists, road-trip detours, never the highway exits., a new-tech enthusiast — Claude Code is the daily driver. EVs and climate tech eat the rest of my attention., a technologist — Day-job senior engineer. Off-hours it's indie SaaS and whatever model dropped this week., a road-trip romantic — I-70 through Colorado. Day trip to the Grand Canyon., a lifelong tinkerer — Take it apart, put it back together, learn what was actually broken., a video-game lifer — Pokémon Blue on a Gameboy Color got me started. Now the Steam library's deep enough to be embarrassing., an RPG diehard — Started on Runescape in middle school. Now it's Elden Ring and BG3 eating weekends.