I'm Murphy Randle, a Software Engineer
đź“Ť Oahu, Hawai'i
Employed @ Automattic
As a Principal Engineer at Day One, I’ve spent nine years elevating software architecture, especially in syncing secure, end-to-end encrypted data. Now, I’m leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform the future of journaling.
Tools Stack
Warp
Terminal Application
Claude Code
AI Coding Agent
Day One
Daily Work Journal & Notes
Cursor
AI Coding Agent
Linear
Project and Task Management
Table Plus
Fantastic SQL App
Work Experience
2014 – Present
Day One [Automattic] / Engineer, Architect, & Team Lead
- Lead each of the engineering teams in turns
- Pushed the boundaries of what's possible with AI Journaling while keeping data as private as possible
- Managed all operations for server and database, constructing a stack based on AWS that could be monitored and managed by a small team
- Architected and executed a full re-write of the back-end over a period of three years, including changing databases
- Front-end architecture and development for Day One's Web client and internal admin tools
2014 – 2016
Kuali / Software Engineer
- One of four initial engineers on Kuali's Curriculum Management product
- Programming and architecture on the front-end using React and back-end in Node.js
- Early exploration on Flow's dynamic type layer over Javascript, and early contributor to Flow's type definition library
2013-2014
Space Monkey / Frontend Web Engineer
Did front-end and web development for Space Monkey, including maintaining and developing its web client for file management.
2011
Pixar Animation Studios / Rendering Technical Director
Internship in film production, rendered 96 shots on the film "Cars 2", and developed python scripts to facilitate the rendering production pipeline.