He plans to improve on the micro-blogging platform's mobile products.
Tumblr has poached the VP of Engineering at the New York Times, Brian Murphy, to fill the role of CTO at the popular blogging platform. According to Re/code, Murphy will join Tumblr in March and head up the engineering group, with an emphasis on beefing up its mobile products—an area he is familiar with after working on mobile apps for the Times.