Elissa Murphy

Elissa E. Murphy is an American software engineer and a vice president of engineering at Google. Before working at Google, she was the chief technology officer and executive vice president of platforms at GoDaddy. She previously worked at Yahoo! as a vice president of engineering.

Career

Murphy began her career in management at Symantec and in product at Quarterdeck. In 1997, she started at Microsoft, where she worked for thirteen years in various engineering management roles on products such as Windows Live. Murphy moved to Silicon Valley in November 2010, joining Yahoo! as the vice president of engineering in Hadoop and cloud services.[1]

She left Yahoo! in April 2013 to join her former colleague Blake Irving at GoDaddy, where he had recently been appointed chief executive officer.[2] Murphy served as GoDaddy's chief technology officer and executive vice president of platforms until May 2016.[3] During her tenure at GoDaddy, she launched the GoDaddy Women in Technology Network with the goal of fostering a diverse culture.[4] In July 2016, Murphy joined Google as a vice president of engineering.[3][5]

References

  1. ↑ Bessette, Chanelle (July 3, 2014). "10 Questions: Elissa Murphy, chief technology officer, GoDaddy". Fortune. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Metz, Cade (May 26, 2015). "GoDaddy Isn't the Company You Think It Is". Wired. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Lynley, Matthew (April 16, 2016). "GoDaddy CTO and cloud VP heads to Google". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Burrowes, Brianne (April 27, 2015). "Elissa Murphy: Chief Technology Officer + EVP, Cloud Platforms". I Want Her Job. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Elissa E. Murphy". Boardroom Insiders. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
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