Murray originated in Canada where he earned a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo in 1994. He has spent his professional career working at Internet Service Providers and software companies, mostly tending to general infrastructure but specializing for many years in email and related technologies. He spent much effort on open source email systems at Sendmail and Cloudmark, during which he became a regular IETF participant working on open source software and standards in tandem. He has authored or co-authored 33 RFCs. He has chaired several working groups (MARF, WEIRDS, APPSAWG, DISPATCH, DCRUP, and more recently DMARC) and served on back-to-back NomComs. He also serves as one of the reviewers of Media Type applications, and was a member of the ICANN Technical Study Group supporting the successor to WHOIS. Since 2012 he's been employed by Facebook (now Meta Platforms) as a Software Engineer and a Production Engineer, and now a Production Engineering Manager, recently focused mainly on supporting and growing both internal and external cloud and data center services.

Murray recently completed a five-year term as an Area Director for the Applications and Real Time area.

He lives near San Francisco with his wife and daughter.