Rusty Morton
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER at Lively, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRusty Morton is a senior software engineering manager with over 15 years of hands-on development experience and more than 8 years leading and scaling engineering teams across enterprise and healthcare fintech platforms. He combines deep full-stack expertise—C#, ASP.NET, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and automation frameworks like WebDriverIO/Playwright—with a strong track record in SDLC, QA automation, and performance-driven rearchitecture. At Lively he doubled engineering capacity, reduced production regressions by over 50% through automation, and established SLAs and support strategies that improved incident response and resolution. Previously at Workday he led distributed teams to modernize legacy Absence Management frameworks and contributed to Workday’s open-source Canvas UI kit with accessibility and header UX improvements. Known for mentoring developers into senior roles and for cross-functional collaboration with product, marketing, and partners, he balances customer-focused delivery with technical vision. Based in California, he brings a pragmatic blend of technical craftsmanship and people leadership that consistently turns complex requirements into reliable, usable products.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityAssociates, Engineering, 3.6, Associates, Engineering, 3.6 at West Valley College
Github Skills (13)
accessibility10
system10
typescript10
typescripts10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
sys10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
javascript9
html9
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Workday/canvas-kit
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Development kits to implement UI following the Workday Canvas Design System (https://canvas.workday.com/). See our Component Storybook -
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 reviews, 32 commits, 54 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rusty primarily contributed to the `canvas-kit` repository by addressing accessibility issues, improving the user interface of the header component, and refactoring code. They fixed bugs related to header search functionality, including accessibility improvements and prop spread fixes. The user's work also included styling tweaks for icon buttons, along with creating and integrating a combobox component and new text input components. The commits involved changes to React components and associated styling.
reactfollowingcanvasstorybookdesign-system
vibdev/vibdev
Nov 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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