Phillip Morton
Platform Architect
Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhillip Morton is a Platform Architect with a decade of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently leading platform strategy at The Access Group. He started in hands-on development and DevOps, repeatedly converting legacy sites into modern web applications and driving release automation and CI improvements. Phillip blends backend and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular Backstage project where he enhanced Azure DevOps authentication scopes—with practical SQL and infrastructure skills honed across enterprise and startup environments. He’s known for reducing bug backlogs, improving developer productivity, and teaching colleagues technical practices and process improvements. Based in Eastbourne, England, he pairs a pragmatic, user-focused engineering approach with a willingness to mentor others and tackle both architecture and operational detail.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bede's School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
azure-devops-server10
integrate10
apidoc10
integrations10
backstage10
api10
azure-devops10
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
portal7
web-developer7
powershell6
get-method6
move6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 23 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to enhancing the Azure DevOps (ADO) integration within the Backstage framework. Their work involved adding ADO scopes for authentication and authorization, specifically within the ScmAuth API, enabling broader functionality with ADO. They also integrated changes, potentially bug fixes, related to ADO scopes. Furthermore, the user participated in updates impacting core functionalities.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
Phiph/AzSecurityPackRedirectAndHeadersMed
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 9 months
cspapp-extensionhttps-redirectsecuritystrength
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