Hamish Morgan
Senior Engineer at Shopify
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHamish Morgan is a senior engineer and seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience building data-driven products, now at Shopify after a long tenure scaling R&D at Brandwatch. He has led teams from hands-on research to large-scale production, directing data science, machine learning, and web-scale engineering efforts for media and marketing intelligence. At Brandwatch he grew engineering capability across 80 people, guided M&A integration, and intentionally promoted diversity as a lever for creativity and resilient teams. With a PhD in machine learning and computational linguistics, he blends rigorous research and statistical methodology with pragmatic product delivery. Based in Brighton, Hamish pairs deep technical breadth — from NLP and experimentation to cloud data platforms — with mentoring and organisation-building skills that help translate prototypes into robust commercial services.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Machine Learning with Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Machine Learning with Computational Linguistics at University of SussexStandard Grades Maths English Physics Technical Studies German Art Geography, Standard Grades Maths English Physics Technical Studies German Art Geography at Hazelhead AcademyHigher Grades Maths English Geography and Physics, Higher Grades Maths English Geography and Physics at Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School
Github Skills (48)
spark10
python10
r10
txt10
shodan10
matching10
jdbc10
java10
scala10
robot10
directives10
scale10
sql10
robots-txt10
apache9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hamishmorgan/oh-my-zsh
Jul 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
pythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-updatecapistrano
BrandwatchLtd/robots
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
Support for Robots Exclusion Protocol, including parsing and matching against robot.txt directives.
Contributions:130 commits, 20 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 1 month
txtrobots-txtmatchingdirectivesrobot
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