Niall Richard Murphy is an award-winning author, speaker, technologist, and executive leader. He is best known as the instigator, editor, and co-author of the best-selling and industry-defining Site Reliability Engineering book, published with O’Reilly, as well as its successor volume The Site Reliability Workbook. He has devoted over twenty years of mission-critical engineering roles to the craft of software, large-scale service operations, teaching, and diversity in computing.

Having worked in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, he has unparalleled grounding in software and systems engineering across the whole tech industry, and has unique knowledge and experience when it comes to SRE, production engineering generally, and large-scale online cloud systems in particular. He is a startup founder, an experienced executive, educator, occasional researcher, and has solved business problems related to reliability for many multi-billion dollar organizations.

He helps engineering organisations to get better results in production.