Kevin Murphy

Summary

Product engineer with over a decade in software, including five years on production React and TypeScript at federal scale (FedNow, IRS.gov, Michigan UI) and three years building the ASU Mobile App on React Native and AWS as full-time ASU staff. Applied AI shipped over the last year in open-source artifacts covering durable execution, agent orchestration, bounded agent authority, eval rigor, retrieval, and streaming-UI work. AI-augmented daily on Claude Code and VS Code Copilot. BA in cultural anthropology trained me to ask really good questions by reading the gap between what users actually do and what the spec describes.

Experience

1. Deloitte

   Senior Solution Specialist

   Jun 2021 – Present

   Hybrid — Gilbert & Tempe, AZ

   • Led a 15-developer offshore team on the React frontend for Michigan's unemployment insurance modernization (2,000+ pages, 270K residents) on Deloitte's LIFT framework. Personally drove WCAG 2.1 AA conformance and a sidebar performance overhaul — custom ms-precision metrics, O(n²) -> O(n), context-state caching for permissions — averaging 30% improvement.

     Michigan Unemployment InsuranceReactJS, TypeScript, LIFT, WCAG 2.1 AA

   • Modernized the tax-payment UX for 880.9M annual visits and $4.7T in FY2023 federal collection by leading the ReactJS + TypeScript frontend rebuild and shipping every release through the U.S. Treasury release train at production scale.

     IRS.govReactJS, TypeScript, Performance

   • Cut bank onboarding from 60 days to 7 days for 1,000+ participating banks by serving as sole frontend on the LWC/Salesforce app and co-locating with the Federal Reserve's Boston-based team at the Deloitte lower-Manhattan office 4–5 trips per year over 2 years.

     Federal Reserve FedNowLWC, Salesforce

   • Served as paired coach for 7 new-hire developers (junior and mid-level consultants) and informally mentored dozens more.

2. Arizona State University

   Full-Stack Developer · full-time staff (not a student role)

   Aug 2018 – May 2021

   Tempe, AZ

   • Reached 58,000+ weekly users on iOS and Android by leading development on the React Native + AWS student mobile app — geo-located campus events and instant-chat support.

     ASU Mobile AppReact Native, AWS

   • Replaced a $1M/year outsourced vendor contract by building an in-house SMS/web/mobile chatbot platform — ReactJS dashboard + AWS NLP backend, with a 5-person office.

     SunnyReactJS, AWS

   • Engaged 50,000+ fans live at Sun Devil Stadium by building Angular scoreboard games driven by stadium mic + video feeds through an AWS backend.

     Angular, AWS

3. Freelance

   Full-Stack Developer

   2016 – 2021

   Remote

   • Shipped a healthcare MVP (clinician dashboard, client portal, mobile wellness app, EMR intake, insurance-billing e-signatures) by building the full stack solo on AWS (DynamoDB, AppSync, Lambda, API Gateway).

     Wellness Hub RecoveryReact, React Native, AWS

   • Shipped a counseling-practice native mobile app (wellness check-ins, provider portal with charts, news feed) by building React Native + AWS solo.

     Healing Foundations CounselingReact Native, AWS

   • Launched the first public web presence for a government-spend-tracking consultancy by communicating directly with the client on goals and requirements, then designing and shipping a WordPress site solo.

     Nation AnalyticsWordPress

4. Smithsonian Institution

   Internship — Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

   Jul – Aug 2015

   Washington, DC

   • Maintained musician profiles on the Smithsonian Folkways digital archive by updating WordPress content alongside the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage editorial team.

     folkways.si.eduWordPress

Selected open-source projects

1. loom

   Author · Applied AI

   2026

   • Shipped a public durable AI-commerce backend on Vercel Workflows with 4 workflows, saga compensation, exactly-once side effects, Stripe webhook drift reconciliation, agent spending bounded by a deterministic gate, and 10-scenario adversarial + failure-injection eval harness.

     loom.kevinmurphywebdev.comTypeScript, Next.js 16, Vercel Workflow SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Anthropic SDK, Stripe

2. forge

   Author · Applied AI

   2026

   • Shipped a public multi-agent debugging concierge with four parallel subagents, Brier-score calibration, preemptive abort via AbortSignal, graded eval harness, and durable resumable sessions across serverless replicas.

     forge.kevinmurphywebdev.comTypeScript, Next.js 16, Vercel AI SDK, Anthropic SDK, Upstash

3. anchor

   Author · Applied AI

   2026

   • Shipped a public AI-native commerce surface with dual-surface product pages, agents.json capability descriptor, eight-check delegated-authority checkout (HMAC, nonce, idempotency), AEO instrumentation across 13 LLM crawlers, and generative-UI comparison agent via structured-output dispatch.

     anchor.kevinmurphywebdev.comTypeScript, Next.js 16, Vercel AI SDK, Anthropic SDK, Zod

Skills

1. Applied AI

   • Anthropic SDK
   • Vercel AI SDK
   • Vercel Workflows
   • durable execution
   • saga compensation
   • idempotent receivers
   • atomic side effects
   • sub-agent orchestration
   • multi-step tool-use loops
   • MCP server authoring
   • hybrid retrieval
   • citation-shaped structured content
   • eval rigor (Brier-score calibration, IoU scoring, N-runs aggregation, LLM-as-judge)
   • prompt caching with cache-hit-rate instrumentation
   • latency + cost telemetry
   • adversarial prompt-injection harnesses
   • cost-aware model routing
   • cross-instance abort
   • AEO instrumentation
   • Agentic Commerce Protocol
   • Schema.org Product / Offer
   • Claude Code
   • VS Code Copilot

2. Core stack

   • TypeScript
   • JavaScript
   • Node.js
   • HTML / CSS

3. Frontend

   • React
   • React Native
   • Next.js
   • Tailwind
   • Lightning Web Components

4. Performance + accessibility

   • Core Web Vitals (LCP / CLS / INP)
   • Lighthouse-driven optimization
   • WCAG conformance at federal scale

5. Backend

   • Bun
   • Express
   • Postgres
   • Supabase

6. AWS

   • Lambda
   • API Gateway
   • DynamoDB
   • AppSync
   • S3
   • IAM
   • CloudFormation (production); EC2
   • RDS
   • VPC
   • ELB
   • Route 53
   • CloudFront (Solutions Architect Associate cert)

7. Platforms + tooling

   • Vercel
   • Cloudflare
   • Upstash Redis
   • GitHub Actions
   • Salesforce