Chris Morgan
Senior Staff Engineer at Moloco
Woodinville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Morgan is a Senior Staff Engineer with 16+ years building and leading high-throughput, distributed systems across Fintech, Cloud Services, Advertising, and DoD/IC customers. He has repeatedly led large teams and migrations—most recently consolidating SoFi’s lending originations and migrating analytical infrastructure to a Snowflake-based data mesh—and previously drove BigQuery data movement and migration efforts at Google. Deeply experienced in Java, C++, Rust, OLTP/OLAP, and both SQL and NoSQL databases, he combines hands-on implementation, devops, and API/schema-first tooling to deliver production systems on time and within budget. An active open-source contributor, he has improved well-known Rust projects including the Zola static site generator and html5ever parser, and contributes tooling and editor support that improve developer experience. Based in Woodinville, WA, he’s available for mentoring and contract work and brings a pragmatic, cross-domain perspective that often uncovers operational constraints early in design.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Software Engineering, M.S. Software Engineering at University of Southern California
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Github Skills (91)
parser10
restructuredtext10
python10
testing10
vimscript10
command-line-interface10
markdown10
file-management10
django10
text-manipulation10
indentation10
bdd10
rust10
cli10
pylint10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust.vim
Jul 2013 - Oct 2021
Vim configuration for Rust.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Vim Configuration)
Software Engineer (Vim Configuration)Contributions:85 commits, 48 PRs, 48 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `rust-lang/rust.vim` repository, which is a Vim configuration for Rust. Their work focused on enhancing the syntax highlighting, indentation, and overall user experience within Vim for Rust code. The user implemented improvements such as supporting new Rust language features, fixing comment highlighting and indentation, and adding features like better code fence detection. This involved modifying syntax files, filetype plugins, and indentation scripts to improve the developer experience in Vim when working with Rust code.
rustneovimvimvim-configuration
getzola/zola
May 2019 - Apr 2020
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on improving the Zola static site generator by implementing new features, refactoring existing code, and improving template rendering. They added functionality for manual header ID specification in Markdown rendering and updated the codebase to utilize an "updated" field for pages, integrating it into various aspects of the site generation process. The user also refactored templates and updated Atom feed generation, improving the overall functionality and maintainability of the project.
cmseverythingstatic-siterustblog-engine
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