Richard Morgan
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Cisco
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Morgan is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in London with two decades of experience turning messy, high-stakes data into actionable systems across telecoms, enterprise monitoring, and cloud platforms. He is a full-stack expert on Splunk Enterprise now working within Cisco, blending hands-on SPL/dashboard mastery with product strategy and architecture leadership. Richard has been the go-to technical authority for complex EMEA accounts, routinely travelling to rescue deployments and shape core engineering roadmaps. His background spans low-level C++ and distributed CORBA systems through Java and big-data integrations, giving him rare depth from device-level activation to cloud-scale observability. Colleagues know him as a one-stop shop for stability, performance and cost-optimisation insights—often uncovering systemic configuration patterns that materially reduce cloud spend.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Maths Computers Physics, A-Level Maths Computers Physics at Geoffrey Chaucer Technology SchoolDegree Mathematics with Computing, Degree Mathematics with Computing at University of Leicester
English
Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
silkyrich/cluster_health_tools
Apr 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:428 commits, 4 PRs, 408 pushes in 3 years 3 months
silkyrich/ingest_eval_examples
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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