American technologist who co-founded Snap Inc. with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown at Stanford — serving as CTO — building the technical infrastructure for Snapchat's ephemeral messaging, Stories, and Spectacles hardware products.
Built the technical infrastructure for ephemeral social media — Murphy's engineering leadership created the platform that popularized disappearing messages, Stories format (later adopted by Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook), and augmented reality face filters.
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