Brian D. Murphy

Brian D. Murphy has been enamored with computers and programming since he got his first computer, an Apple IIc, in 1984. He graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S. in Computer Science and has focused on web development in a variety of settings ranging from early stage startups to large, multinational corporations in fields covering E-Commerce, consulting, finance and media. He was an early adopter of Spring and Hibernate, and has been using both frameworks on large production systems since 2003.

In his present role, Brian is the Chief Architect and Director of Engineering at Condé Nast where he oversees the web and mobile presence for twentyfive award winning brands such as wired.com, newyorker.com, epicurious.com and vanityfair.com. He and his team leverage both Spring and Hibernate to power all of Condé's online products; drawing tens of millions of unique visitors each month. Brian deals with the challenges of building and operating scalable, distributed systems every single day.

Brian lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with his wife, Dania, sons, Liam & Mason and their dog, Cooper.

You can follow Brian on Twitter at http://twitter.com/brimurph or read his blog at http://turmoildrivendevelopment.com.