Summary
Morgan Drake is a seasoned infrastructure and application development engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, automated systems across public and private sectors. Currently a senior app development specialist for the State of Washington, Morgan previously shaped release and SRE practices at HashiCorp and ActiveCampaign, bringing deep expertise in Linux, containers, Kubernetes/EKS, AWS, and HashiCorp tooling. They blend hands-on operations (storage, virtualization, MSSQL) with developer-facing automation—authored training and led onboarding at Chef—making complex infrastructure approachable for teams. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, Morgan is skilled at translating operational needs into reproducible pipelines and has a track record of mentoring and improving runbooks and deployment hygiene. An Earth & Space Sciences BS with a Unix administration certificate, Morgan pairs analytical curiosity with practical systems craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Earth and Space Sciences, Bachelor of Science, Earth and Space Sciences at University of Washington
Linux/Unix Administration Certificate, Linux/Unix Administration Certificate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign