Kief Morris
Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKief Morris is a Distinguished Engineer based in London with 13+ years driving infrastructure and delivery transformation at ThoughtWorks, where he progressed from Lead DevOps Engineer to Principal and now Distinguished Engineer and former Global Head of Practice for Infrastructure. He helps engineering organizations ship faster and more reliably by blending hands-on cloud and infrastructure skills with organisational coaching and practice leadership. Author of the O’Reilly book Infrastructure as Code and an active open-source contributor, he has contributed practical testing tooling for AWS (awspec) that improves infrastructure testability. His background spans startups to global consulting, giving him a knack for translating business needs into operable, auditable systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic patterns that scale across teams and cloud platforms.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Eleanor Roosevelt High SchoolBA, BA at Eckerd CollegeJefferson Junior HighMSc, MSc at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Turkish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
ruby10
rspec10
aws10
testing10
java9
migration6
maven-plugin6
socket-io6
nodejs6
nginx6
surefire6
proxy6
testng6
ruby-on-rails6
git3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
k1LoW/awspec
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
RSpec tests for your AWS resources.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kief primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the awspec project, which provides RSpec tests for AWS resources. They fixed bugs related to duplicate instances and removed unnecessary code. Furthermore, they added support for the ALB resource type, implemented corresponding tests and stubs and made use of type alterations. Their work reflects a strong understanding of testing, AWS resource management, and the Ruby language in relation to the project's overall goals.
rspecaws-resourcesrubyaws
kief/infra-workbox
May 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:114 commits, 51 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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