Summary
Morgan Grant is a Sr. Software Engineer in the Bay Area with 10 years of experience designing cloud-native, full-stack systems and scalable data pipelines. With a Master's in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz, Morgan has led architecture and implementation on small teams, building systems that range from monolithic Django apps to serverless Lambda APIs and Spark/Delta Lake data warehouses. He specializes in AWS while favoring cloud-agnostic design principles, using IaC (CloudFormation, CDK) to ensure repeatable, secure infrastructure. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he pairs deep SQL/RDBMS expertise with production experience in NoSQL, React/Angular frontends, and complex data processing. Notably, he has managed and mentored teams in academic research settings, translating experimental needs into reliable, production-grade software.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz