Elissa E. Murphy is an American

software engineer Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term ''p ...

, and the Vice President of Engineering at

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. Before working at Google, she was the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Platforms at

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. She previously worked at

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Manage ...

as the Vice President of Engineering.

Career

Murphy began her career in Product Development at Fifth Generation Systems and Symantec. After a year as a director at Quarterdeck in 1996, she started at

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...

in 1997 where she worked for thirteen years. She worked in various engineering management roles on products such as

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. Murphy moved to

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in November 2010, joining

as the Vice President of Engineering in

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and Cloud Services. Murphy was also the

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of the Women in Technology Network at

. She left Yahoo! in April 2013 to join her former colleague

Blake Irving Blake Irving is the American former Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of GoDaddy. Before coming to GoDaddy in 2013, Blake worked for Yahoo! and Microsoft where he helped develop NetMeeting, MSN Messenger, and Hotmail. Early life and ed ...

, where he had recently been appointed

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. Murphy served as GoDaddy's Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Platforms until May 2016. During her tenure at

, she launched the

Women in Technology Network with the goal of fostering a diverse culture. In July 2016, Murphy joined

as the Vice President of Engineering. She was a board member at

Inphi Corporation Inphi Corporation is an American company that produces 10G-800G high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor components and optical subsystems to networking original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), optical module, cloud and telecom service p ...

from 2015 to 2021 until the successful acquisition of Inphi by

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. She was appointed to the

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board in September 2021. In 2018, she was named one of the "most powerful female engineers" in the United States by

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. Elissa has several patents issued in the areas of

distributed systems A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...

cloud infrastructure Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

, and

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References

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