Parker Murphy

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Engineering Manager, VMware - SwiftUI · Swift · Core Data

VMware
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
8+ years experience
Carnegie Mellon University
English
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

I lead iOS apps at VMware in Boston. Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 15 a week to 2. Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 397ms to 108ms. Before that: Atlassian and Booking Holdings. Open-source contributor on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on iOS apps
  • Questions about iOS apps
  • Working sessions on Swift
  • Second opinions on UIKit decisions
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Generic networking requests
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
ARM Cortex-MSwiftUIUIKitSwiftCore DataCombineXCTest
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for career switchers into engineering: iOS apps and ARM Cortex-M

Topics
iOS apps, Combine, XCTest
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

8 years of iOS apps. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Boston, MA · remote OKswiftarm cortex-mxctest
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2026 - Present
    VMware · 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 39% in two quarters.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Senior iOS Engineer
    May 2023 - May 2026
    Atlassian · 3 yr · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Wrote the XCTest service that now handles 21 million requests a day.
    • Moved 77% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
    Booking Holdings · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 6.
    • Moved 89% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. iOS Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
    Bank of America · 10 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Took crash-free sessions from 96.7% to 99.8%.
    • Moved 91% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Carnegie Mellon University
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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