Bruce Morrison
Engineering Manager at Xero
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Morrison is an engineering leader with 18 years of experience currently heading engineering for Xero’s Product Experience – Direct Growth from Queensland, Australia. He has progressed from systems administration and solution architecture into senior engineering management roles, including Head of Software Development at Megaport and multiple leadership positions at GlobalX. Known for blending product-focused delivery with platform-thinking, he has hands-on DevOps chops—contributing improvements to the popular voxpupuli puppet-elasticsearch module by fixing dependency cycles and hardening template application. Bruce excels at scaling teams and systems across cloud and infra boundaries while keeping operational reliability front of mind. Colloquially curious and pragmatic, he pairs a long-running technical foundation with a knack for simplifying complex delivery challenges.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (12)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
puppeteer10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
ruby9
automation-testing8
automations8
automation8
puppet8
puppet-bolt7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-elasticsearch
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Elasticsearch Puppet module
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Bruce focused on improving the Elasticsearch Puppet module by refining the template management and service notification processes. They addressed dependency cycles, implemented retry mechanisms for template application failures, and optimized resource naming. Their work involved moving resources for better efficiency and updating tests related to template functionality.
puppetelasticpuppet-modulerubylinux-puppet-module
brucem/ezpublish-recaptcha
Feb 2008 - Jan 2015
reCAPTCHA provides a reCAPTCHA eZ publish datatype that can be used in editing content and information collection.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 11 months
publishdatatyperecaptchainformation-collectionez-publish
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