Morgan Connolly
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMorgan Connolly is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berkeley with a decade of experience building data ingestion and processing systems for large-scale Hadoop ecosystems. At Uber he architects and implements pipelines that homogenize diverse datastores into a reliable Hadoop data lake, drawing on strong experience with Spark, Kafka, and distributed systems from prior roles at BuildZoom. Comfortable across Go, Python, and DevOps tooling, Morgan combines hands-on engineering with operational optimization to reduce cost and improve throughput. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the Tridactyl Firefox extension’s UI and hint-mode features, reflecting an eye for user-facing detail as well as backend robustness. He also brings a quantitative mindset from earlier research work in economic data analysis and grassroots mentorship teaching kids programming.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Senior, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Senior at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (6)
css10
webextension10
javascript10
firefox10
vim9
html8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tridactyl/tridactyl
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Morgan primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of Tridactyl, a Vim-like interface for Firefox. Their work involved removing or modifying UI elements, such as removing focus from the URL bar in new tabs. The user also implemented and refined features related to element deletion and restoration, integrating the "kill" and "restorekill" functionality into the hint mode to enhance user control. Additionally, the commits include CSS modifications to the hint display.
firefoxvim-likevimvimperatorwebextension
morganrconnolly/zshrcs
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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