Morgan Pyne
Staff Software Engineer at Canva
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMorgan Pyne is a Staff Software Engineer with 22 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, currently focused at Canva after a long tenure designing large-scale distributed systems at Zapier. He blends hands-on engineering—expertise in Golang, Python, TypeScript, serverless AWS primitives, CDK/Terraform and CI/CD—with leadership experience as a former CTO and security director who established first-of-kind security programs and platform teams. Morgan excels at reducing developer friction and shipping fast via automation, infrastructure-as-code, and pragmatic architecture choices for small-to-medium companies. A prolific early-stage engineer (employee #5 at Vend) who has repeatedly bootstrapped production-grade infrastructure, he combines product-minded system design with operational experience running services at scale. Outside work he contributes to KDE and open-source projects like game-music-emu, reflecting a long-standing curiosity across systems and user-facing software.
22 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Dublin City University
English, German, Italian, Irish
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Github Skills (132)
visual-studio10
extractor10
forwarding10
linux10
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audio10
gm10
netbsd10
ogg-vorbis10
mp310
taglib10
development-environment10
efi10
audio-files10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/kdesrc-build
Apr 2004 - Jan 2023
Script to streamline setting up and maintaining KDE software development environment
Contributions:1948 commits in 19 years
streamlinesettinglinuxdevelopment-environmentkde
purinchu/advent-of-code
Dec 2023 - Dec 2025
Contributions:116 pushes in 2 years
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