Morgan Nelson
Assoc. Dir, Systems Engineering at Raytheon Technologies
Wylie, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMorgan Nelson is an accomplished systems engineering leader with 14+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale, automated server infrastructures and distributed systems. Currently Associate Director of Systems Engineering at Raytheon Technologies, he blends deep ops expertise (Chef, AWS, Jenkins, Graphite) with a developer's background in Ruby, Java and MySQL to drive resilient, monitored platforms. His career spans senior roles in DevOps and application development, giving him rare fluency across network architecture, web services (REST), and scalable client/server design. A Certified MySQL Developer and Scrum Master, he pairs rigorous process with a curiosity for new technologies and practical automation. Based in Wylie, Texas, he’s known for treating fleets of servers like coordinated systems rather than collections of machines—provisioned, reported, and purposeful.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Southern Methodist UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science / Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science / Software Engineering at University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (33)
keybase8
pixel8
pgp7
end-to-end-encryption7
tplink7
open-source7
pixel-art7
chat7
react7
chef-infra6
devops6
cookbook6
idempotent6
react-native6
go5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
korishev/tcpwatch-httpproxy
Apr 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
getaroom/chef-rvm
May 2015 - Aug 2018
Chef cookbook for RVM. Recipes for installing system wide and by user. LWRPs to manage Rubies, gems, gemsets, wrappers.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
rvmdevops
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