Bio

Short Version

Niall Murphy has worked in Internet infrastructure since the mid-1990s. His books have sold approximately a quarter of a million copies world-wide, most notably the award-winning Site Reliability Engineering, and he is probably one of very few to hold degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, and Poetry Studies. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and two children.

Long Version

Niall has worked in Internet infrastructure since the mid-1990s, when he co-founded the University College Dublin Internet Society. At Microsoft, he led the global Azure SRE team, the production visualisation and facility management team of the Azure Cloud Collaboration Center, and the Azure product security and blue teams. He was appointed to those roles six months after starting as Production Infrastructure Engineering lead in Dublin. Prior to Microsoft, he led Ads Reliability Engineering in the Google Dublin office -- a 100+ person effort responsible for infrastructure supporting $20 billion -- and did a stint in Google’s Cloud customer-facing SRE team, Customer Reliability Engineering, where he worked on SRE outreach. Prior to that in turn, Niall worked in a variety of technical and organisational roles in Amazon, the .IE domain registry, HEAnet, Ireland On-Line, and a variety of other companies, including one he co-founded with a trade exit to Virgin Media. He was chair of the board of the INEX, Ireland’s premier exchange point, and sat on the board of TechArchives, a computer history non-profit. He is the author/co-author of numerous books, articles, papers, and RFCs. One particular passion of his is education: he contributed to lobbying for Computer Science as a Leaving Certificate subject, and lectured at UCD on topics in Advanced Software Engineering.

He holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, and Poetry Studies. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and two children. For fun and for art, he does landscape photography.