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Elissa E. Murphy is an American software engineer. She is a vice president of engineering at Google, and holds over forty patents in distributed systems, machine learning, and security.
Career
Murphy began her career in management at Symantec and 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.
She left Yahoo! in April 2013 to join her former colleague Blake Irving at GoDaddy, where he had recently been appointed chief executive officer. Murphy served as GoDaddy's chief technology officer and executive vice president of platforms until May 2016. During her tenure at GoDaddy, she launched the GoDaddy Women in Technology Network with the goal of fostering a diverse culture.
In July 2016, Murphy joined Google as a Vice President of Engineering.
Murphy has been a member of the board of directors of the Inphi Corporation since July 2015.


