Jacob Murphy is a Valkey project maintainer and Technical Steering Committee member. During the day, he is a Staff Software Engineer on Google Cloud's Memorystore team, where he sets the technical direction for Google's managed in-memory databases, including Redis, Valkey, and Memcached. His technical focus is on distributed systems, high availability, and scaling cache infrastructure. In his spare time, Jacob enjoys road biking, hiking, and tackling DIY home repair projects.