Rob Morgan
Brightfame CTO, Founder & Entrepreneur
Greater Perth Area Australia
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RockstarRob Morgan is a seasoned startup CTO and founder based in Perth with 16 years of hands-on experience architecting cloud-native systems and guiding technical due diligence for early-stage and established startups across Australia, Europe, and the US. As Brightfame's technical lead since 2016, he blends pragmatic engineering with strategic leadership, specializing in AWS migrations, architecture reviews, and building scalable infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, Rob has extended and tested core IaC tooling—most notably improving Google Cloud Storage support in Terragrunt and enhancing GKE deployment testing and automation in Terraform modules. He pairs backend and DevOps expertise (including Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, and Terratest) with a product-minded approach to shipping reliable infrastructure. Notably, his contributions often focus on making infrastructure safer and more automatable—adding bucket creation, versioning, labeling, and robust CI test stages that reduce operational friction.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (32)
database-migrations10
kubernetes10
postgresql10
mysql10
testing10
databases10
circleci10
terraform10
cicd10
gcp10
terraformer10
testing-library10
automation10
php10
go10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/phinx
Jan 2012 - Jan 2020
PHP Database Migrations for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 896 commits, 182 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob's contributions focused on the database migration aspect of the Phinx project, as evidenced by the commit messages and code changes. They implemented various database-related features and fixed several bugs. Their work included adding new seed methods, supporting for custom MySQL table engines, adding truncate method and the development of a table with a primary key.
database-migrationdatabase-migrationsphpmigrationsphp-database-migrations
gruntwork-io/terraform-google-gke
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
Terraform code and scripts for deploying a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 10 reviews, 127 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on improving the testing and deployment infrastructure for a Terraform module that deploys GKE clusters. Their contributions involved refactoring tests into stages, integrating CircleCI for continuous integration, and configuring kubectl for accessing the cluster. Additionally, they updated the tests to use environment variables for project and IAM user configuration, and implemented Helm for application deployments on the GKE cluster.
google-kubernetes-engineterraform
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