Chris Morris
Principal Engineer at dscout
Denton, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Morris is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and operating full-stack systems, from Rails apps to containerized infrastructure and IAM. Based in Denton, Texas, he blends Director-level people leadership with deep IC chops—managing SRE teams, migrating Heroku workloads to AWS, and architecting Terraform/Packer-driven deployments. A long-time Ruby contributor, he’s a Bundler core team alumnus who implemented conservative gem updates and improved test coverage for rubygems/bundler, and has added security-focused test automation to OWASP/railsgoat. He’s equally comfortable in ops and app code, with notable background in payments, Postgres DBA work, and security monitoring via Cloudflare and Datadog. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who “mashes keys” to move projects forward and quietly automates tedious work so teams can ship.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies Jazz/Jazz Studies, Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies Jazz/Jazz Studies at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (26)
dependency-management10
ruby-rails10
sql-injection10
rubygems10
testing10
rspec10
csrf10
rails10
capybara10
ruby10
security10
bundler10
xss10
vulnerabilities10
package-manager10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rubygems/bundler
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Manage your Ruby application's gem dependencies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 26 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Bundler project by addressing dependency management issues. Their work included fixing bugs related to environment variable handling and ensuring proper behavior with shared gems. They refactored code related to the GemVersionPromoter class, introducing new functionality related to conservative updates, and added unit tests to cover the new behaviors and ensure code stability. Additional changes involved adding and documenting new command-line options for the `bundle update` and `bundle lock` commands.
dependenciesrubygemsbundlerrubydependency-manager
OWASP/railsgoat
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
A vulnerable version of Rails that follows the OWASP Top 10
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 17 comments, 13 issues in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily involve adding automated tests using Capybara to verify and demonstrate various security vulnerabilities in the Rails application. They created specifications (specs) for SQL injection, command injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), insecure direct object references (IDOR), CSRF, and unvalidated redirects. The commits reveal the user's focus on ensuring the RailsGoat application exhibits the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities through automated testing. They also refactored existing model and feature specs.
ruby-on-railsvulnerablerailssecurityvulnerabilities
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