Kat Morgan
Technical Lead at Cisco
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKat Morgan is a Technical Lead and platform engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in enterprise Linux, containers, bare metal, and cloud-native systems, currently driving platform work at Cisco. She has built and automated next-generation multi-hybrid cloud platforms for high-profile organizations including NASA, and has a rare blend of field engineering, developer advocacy, and security-minded platform delivery across Pulumi, Red Hat, and Microsoft operator projects. Kat excels at turning novel, systemic problems into scalable automation—using tools like Pulumi, Kubernetes, Crossplane, and Flux—while mentoring teams and bridging technical and administrative stakeholders. Her career includes the standout moment of seeing an open-source contribution she helped produce launch to orbit on a Falcon 9, reflecting a taste for ambitious, real-world impact. Based in Sacramento, she brings empathy-driven technical communication and a track record of navigating failure states to deliver delightful human experiences.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Studied - Construction Management Building/Construction Finishing Management and Inspection, Studied - Construction Management Building/Construction Finishing Management and Inspection at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (200)
kvm10
pluggable10
linux-distribution10
cloud-computing10
python10
identity10
authentication10
terraform10
gcp10
infrastructure10
vms10
fsharp10
serverless10
cloud-native10
javascript10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ContainerCraft/ContainerOne
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Base Dependencies for Lifecycle Management & Deploy Time Provisioning
Contributions:4 PRs, 311 pushes, 20 branches in 7 months
provisioningdependencieslifecycleinfrastructure-managementcontainer
usrbinkat/kongee-multiregion-eks
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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