Robert Morris
Technology MacGyver
Mission
To build useful solutions with awesome people - and have fun doing it.
I am looking for an engineering management position that will allow me to combine my years of hands-on experience designing and building systems with my passion to help talented engineers become even better.
Skills
Architect
I have a solid track record of helping users assemble workable requirements and managing the implementation process through to delivery. Whether building systems on government contract work for US military clients, internal department clients as a developer for an international retailer, or helping early-stage companies iterate their MVPs towards scaleable 2.0s, I have repeatedly demonstrated an ability to balance time, resources and requirements to produce solutions that work.
Developer
I believe that while elegance is one of the key hallmarks of truly awesome software, the perfect is all too often the enemy of the good. Software is never "done", so understanding how to get it "done enough" is a crucial concept. Python has been my go-to language for a long time, but I've worked with many languages over the years and am always on the lookout for an excuse to dive into a new one. Meeting the functional spec isn't enough - readbility and maintainability are first-class deliverables as well.
Experience
2017-present
Senior Developer
Do-everything software architect and developer on small team at a disruptive cybersecurity company. Initially worked on enhancements to and scaling up of custom-designed MVP system-of-systems designed to multiply analysis speed and effectiveness. Recent efforts focused on building more specialized (and almost entirely serverless) systems to automate key workflows, including flexible automation to integrate data from third-party services.
True greenfield full-stack work, ranging from bug fixing, to new feature development, to cloud architecture design & management. Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and a huge array of AWS offerings (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, Cloudfront, Step Functions, Cloudformation, Cloudwatch, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, IAM). Full-time remote position; direct report to co-founder.
HireIQ
2016-2017
Interim CTO/Technical Lead
Led and developed with the same small team of engineers, continually expanding our suite of virtual interviewing products. Major efforts include designing and development new capabilities our custom ASR engine for automated language proficiency scoring (LanguageIQ), custom predictive model development for select clients to highlight new candidates that share interview characteristics with successful past hires, and ongoing refinement and feature development of our core virtual interviewing "ATS Lite"-like service. Managed several review and response efforts for in-process patents. Reported directly to CEO and Board of Directors.
HireIQ
2012-2016
Software Developer
Devops on very small engineering team for virtual interviewing startup. Python, Django, AWS, Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, the ML library scikit-learn and Twilio are just some of the tools used to build products to help companies find better job candidates faster. Notable accomplishments include: converted our self-managed legacy phone switch architecture to Twilio; migrated our entire self-hosted product stack (Xen server VMs) to a custom AWS OpsWorks stack.
Aaron's
2011-2012
Senior Software Specialist
CIO direct report. Moved as needed from team to team to work on critical projects or ongoing development headaches that would benefit from my business knowledge and experience. Partnered on design and development of in-store virtual payment terminal. Assisted on design and development of store-managed recurring payment prototype. Continued enhancements to online payment site and support infrastructure. Last worked on new point of sale re-development effort.
Aaron's
2010-2011
Product Manager, Customer Software
CIO direct report. Managed four person team with responsibilites ranging from all public sites to online payment sites to credit reporting systems. Designed and managed refactoring of online payment website to improve usability and reduce PCI compliance costs; percent of total company revenue collected online subsquently grew 30%+ (4.9% Q12010 to 6.4% Q42011). Managed complete redesign and launch of primary public website. First customer-facing use of feedback system (Uservoice).
Aaron's
2007-2010
Application Developer
Led initiative to convert IT from VSS and BugTracker.NET to SVN and Trac. Extended and scaled-up initial online payment website prototype. Designed and developed data architecture to support reporting and automated reconciliation.
Georgia Tech Research Institute
2002-2007
Research Engineer
Project manager, designer, task lead, and developer. Co-authored paper; won "Most Innovative/Creative Paper" at 2005 Annual ITEA International Symposium. Part of team that pioneered use of open source tools for DoD contract work.
