Andrew Morton
Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engines at MongoDB
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Morton is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in storage engines and low-level systems, with 11 years of experience building high-performance database and OS-adjacent software. Based in Sydney, he has driven WiredTiger performance and testing improvements at MongoDB, including migrating log-consolidation tests to Evergreen and enhancing wtperf tooling to make performance suites more reliable and efficient. His background spans safety-critical avionics and formally verified compilers, having improved CI/CD and test harnesses at Thales and contributed translation layers for CakeML during research work. A computer-science-focused engineer who relishes cache hierarchies, memory barriers and modern languages like Rust, he blends rigorous formal thinking with pragmatic DevOps and backend skills. Notably, he has repeatedly accelerated developer velocity—most visibly by improving automated test execution tenfold at Thales—while staying active on prominent open-source storage projects.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
python10
wiredtiger10
databases10
mongodb-database10
performance-testing10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
nosql9
command-line-interface9
devops9
test-automation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wiredtiger/wiredtiger
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
WiredTiger's source tree
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1641 reviews, 88 commits, 470 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the migration of log consolidation tests to Evergreen, modifying Python scripts for performance testing. They implemented features to pass operations and arguments to wtperf via the command line and validated the expected output from performance tests. Furthermore, the user improved performance testing by filtering stats on `PerfStatCollection` construction and cleaning up test artifacts on test success.
rustwiredtiger
ajmorton/advent_of_code
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:194 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
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