Michael Murphy

b(x) Theory

AI Engineer Intern • May 2026 — Present

• Building AI agents with Google ADK to generate the kind of financial analyses normally performed by CPAs.
• Systemized and improved RAG retrieval & extraction pipelines, cutting extraction time by 50% on average.
• Deploying agents and architecture on GCP (Cloud Run, GCS, AlloyDB, and more), maintained with Terraform.
• Implementing document chunking & data extraction pipelines, with domain ontology captured as LinkML.
• Integrating evaluation and monitoring using MLflow to assess agent performance and deployment metrics.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with finance-domain executives to ensure the product meets their needs.

George Brown College

Professor | School of Computer Technology • January 2023 — September 2023, January 2025 — April 2025

• Taught multiple college courses on Python, webdev (PHP, JavaScript), databases (MySQL), and design.
• Handled both online and in-person formats. Graded assignments and exams within regular deadlines.
• Consistently received positive feedback and engagement from students.

MaxTech Canada

Support Engineer • October 2023 — January 2025

• Provided live support to small business customers, resolved technical issues (software, hardware, network).
• Managed medium- and long-term projects like site upgrades and rollouts, often involving physical deployments.
• Conducted organization-scale updates and other changes with NinjaOne RMM & scripting.
• Migrated outdated on-premises nodes to cloud-based virtual machines hosted on V2 Cloud.
• Maintained thorough documentation in OneNote, and managed customer records for billing using BlueFolder.

Trilogy

Software Engineer • May 2022 — September 2022

• Maintained three enterprise-grade products, built on: PHP, C#, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Jenkins, GitHub.
• Addressed technical debt by creating user-friendly documentation.
• Guided and coached other team members during sprints.

Three Ireland

Full-Stack Developer • September 2019 — April 2022

• Maintained an internal PHP- and JavaScript-based web application for network engineers, built on a LAMP stack, hosted on EC2 Linux instances, with storage in S3, and a MySQL database.
• Introduced code review & sprints using GitHub, reducing rollbacks from twice monthly to twice annually.
• Led an automated config rollout, enabling a 6-month manual process to reach 80% completion in 2 weeks.
• Created several automated routines with Bash, Python, VBScript, reducing time spent on repetitive tasks.
• Collaborated directly with internal & external customers, including network engineers & business leadership.
• Received Hero awards (2020, 2021) for display of company values. Nominated for Grad of the Year (2020).
• Sat on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB) steering committee. Organized an International Mens' Day event.
• Technical lead on a company-wide charity project, requiring survey management and data analysis.

Boston Scientific

Software Engineer Co-op • May 2017 — Aug 2017

• Developed an internal meeting-room locator application for a 3000-person manufacturing plant.
• Worked under minimal supervision, managed my own issues and deadlines.
• Taught myself the tech stack: C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, SQL.

York University

Master of Science, Computer Science (Specialization in AI) • Expected October 2026

• Graduating with 3.8 GPA.
• Courses & grades: Data Mining (A), Fairness & Bias in AI (A+), Machine Learning Theory (A+), Robotics (A), Probabilistic Methods & Machine Learning (B+), Capstone Project Management (A).
• Projects: Agentic AI Exam Study Planner, LLMs for Optimization, Reinforcement Learning for Puzzle Games.

University of Galway

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Mathematics • 2015 — 2019

• Graduated with 4.0 GPA (1st Class Honours).
• Received the Blayney Exhibition in Science for achieving the highest marks in my graduating year.
• Created a game in Unity for my final year project, which won Best in Original Story at the Irish Games Fleadh (2019).
• Held multiple positions in Drama and Musical Theatre club committees, including Events Officer and Treasurer.
• Events Officer for a national student drama festival. Organised ten days of events, including fundraisers and an awards ceremony. Resulted in a nomination for Best Fresher.

University of Galway

Diploma in Arts, French • 2015 — 2017

• Graduated with 4.0 GPA (1st Class Honours)

St. Joseph's Patrician College, Galway

Leaving Certificate • 2010 — 2015

• Achieved 615 points (out of a possible 625 points).

TCGPDeckGenie

Portfolio Project • 2026

• CLI-based app that designs Pokémon TCG Pocket decks from natural-language briefs using Gemini (free tier).
• Uses TCGdex SDK for knowledge of cards and solo-battle missions, for which it can build counter decks.
• Responses grounded by Pydantic structured output. CLI powered by Click CLI.

GroundedDoc

Portfolio Project • 2026

• CLI-based app that answers questions over document collections with checkable citations & conflict awareness.
• Aimed at analysing privacy policies against regulatory corpora (e.g., PIPEDA, GDPR).
• Deploys on GCP Cloud Run, served via FastAPI, with a browser extension front-end for sending requests.

Agentic AI Exam Study Planner

MSc Project • York University

Agentic AI project focused on planning exam study workflows.

LLMs for Optimization

MSc Project • York University

Technical research project exploring LLMs for optimization.

Reinforcement Learning for Puzzle Games

MSc Project • York University

Reinforcement learning project focused on puzzle-game environments.

Programming languages and AI/ML tools

Proficient with the following technologies:

• Python (PyTorch, Gymnasium, Unsloth, YOLO)
• PHP
• MySQL
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• C#
• Bash
• Java
• Hugging Face
• Weights & Biases
• Roboflow
• Google ADK
• Git, GitHub, Jira
• RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms

• AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, IAM
• GCP: Cloud SQL, GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Vertex AI), IAM

Certifications

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate (AWS DVA-C02)
• Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)

Soft skills

• Web design
• Analysis and problem-solving
• Coaching and teaching
• Effective communication

Hero awards

Three Ireland • 2020, 2021

Received two Hero awards for exemplifying company values;
namely Taking Responsibility and Going Beyond the Expected.

Grad of the Year [nominated]

Three Ireland • 2020

Nominated for Grad of the Year by the Graduate Program Leader and two of my managers.

Blayney Exhibition in Science

University of Galway • 2019

Awarded for graduating with the highest mark in my degree program.

Special recognition award

National Student Challenge (Ireland) • 2019

Awarded in recognition of my leadership qualities and teamwork skills.