Stephen Murray

Cofounded Starry and led its engineering organization while continuing hands-on work in distributed systems, network infrastructure, and applied ML. More than 20 years of software engineering experience.

Nationwide fixed-wireless internet service provider · Acquired by Verizon in Q1 2026

• Built Starry’s service-oriented platform across AWS and on-premises infrastructure for network control, embedded devices, customer systems, and operations tools.
• Hired and managed more than 50 engineers, technical leads, and managers. Set engineering roadmaps, developed managers, and mentored senior individual contributors. Reviewed architecture, code, and production changes.
• Maintained 99.995% availability across thousands of servers through SLOs, observability, incident response, postmortems, and controlled releases.
• Reduced manual triage and improved QoS analysis. Led ML work on network fault localization, anomaly detection, time-series forecasting, and churn prediction.
• Built LLM agents for outage analysis and operations questions. Connected agents to incident, customer, log, and metrics tools, with Langfuse tracing to inspect agent behavior.
• Built Starry’s internal developer platform, standardizing development and deployment across more than 150 Node.js services through custom frameworks, shared libraries, and infrastructure automation.
• Designed and helped build network automation for IPAM/DCIM, RADIUS address allocation, TR-069 device management, SNMP, monitoring, and alerts.
• Managed hardware partners from prototype through nationwide operation. Led ODM/OEM work with Cisco, Zyxel, Marvell, Zaram, and Quantenna.