Alexander Morton
Cloud Engineer at HP Wolf Security
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Morton is a Cloud Engineer with 9 years' experience building and operating resilient AWS-based infrastructure, currently shaping cloud platforms at HP Wolf Security from Glasgow. He combines practical DevOps skills—Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, CI/CD and serverless—with a rare academic grounding in theoretical and experimental physics, which he applies to rigorous system design and observability. His background includes migrating complex VPCs across clouds for compliance, leading DevOps teams to modernise monoliths onto ECS/Fargate and Lambda, and managing production databases and logging stacks at scale. Comfortable across both infrastructure and application layers, he has hands-on experience with NodeJS, React, and service discovery tooling like Consul. Known for mentoring juniors and translating scientific problem-solving into reliable automation, he brings a methodical, data-driven approach to cloud reliability and security.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 1st, Master's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 1st at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (14)
typescript8
vscode-extension7
microsoft7
electron7
vscode7
editor7
visual-studio-code6
visual-studio6
webpack3
react3
nodejs3
expressjs3
redux2
mongodb2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mortonprod/CleaningWebsite
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:221 commits, 44 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
mortonprod/blog
Aug 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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