James Morgan
Trafford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Morgan is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building distributed systems, NFT marketplaces, and Web3 products. As CTO and co-founder of KnownOrigin and founder of BlockRocket, he scaled an early Ethereum/IPFS NFT marketplace to $50M+ in sales and helped bring Web3 capabilities into eBay’s strategic roadmap as Director of Technology. He combines hands-on backend engineering (contributions to projects like the Alpakka Kafka connector and Moloch DAO test suites) with executive-level product, compliance, and partnerships experience across payments and wallet infrastructure. Based in Trafford, England, he’s comfortable moving between protocol engineering, serverless architectures, and team scaling—often finding product opportunities at the intersection of decentralisation and mainstream commerce. An educator and community builder, he founded Blockchain Manchester to grow local blockchain expertise while continuing to ship pragmatic, production-grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Ecommerce Systems, 2:1 Ecommerce Systems at The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
solidity10
testing10
kafka-connector10
uri-builder10
kafka10
akka10
java10
javas10
akka-streams10
ethereum10
smart-contracts10
javascript9
scala9
hardhat9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
akka/alpakka-kafka
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Alpakka Kafka connector - Alpakka is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Akka.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:James contributed to the development of the Alpakka Kafka connector by implementing Java-based builder classes for consumer and producer properties. They added unit tests for these properties, focusing on various configuration scenarios. The user also updated the project dependencies and documentation, ensuring the project's build and documentation are current.
enterprise-integrationkafka-connectorconnectorstreamsplay-framework
MolochVentures/moloch
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
👹 Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money!
Role in this project:Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributes to the smart contract codebase, focusing on testing and feature implementation. They added new test cases for the Moloch V2 contract, including tests for the rageQuit and CancelProposal functions. The user also made improvements to the build and test process, by including a upgrade builder and minor tweaks to contracts.
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