Neal Morris

Early stage startup, providing tooling for security practitioners to do more with the tools they have.

At Nagomi, I started on the product team initially but was asked to join the data team to help out

temporarily with a large project which became permanent after. My main role evolved from IC to one

closer to an architect.

Some notable achievements include:

• Working with stakeholders to identify key bottlenecks in the system, and creating a roadmap of incremental improvements to the overall system architecture.
• Played a key role in delivering a proof of value project for one of the largest organisations in the world, leading the technical effort.
• Implemented the core infrastructure for the evolution of our data-pipeline from a traditional ETL to a data-mesh approach.

Series G company, providing tools in the software supply chain empowering engineers to write more

secure code by leveraging static analysis and more.

My journey at Snyk started as an individual contributor on a stream-aligned team working on billing.

After six months, I started a small team with a colleague to tackle systemic reliability issues with

long-running/computationally heavy workloads. We built a Workflow Engine leveraging Temporal.

Some notable achievements include:

• Leading a project to bring stability and durability to a complex platform system that schedules and orchestrates over 20m+ static analysis tests a night. (Previously we had system instability at ~ 2.5 million)
• Self-hosting a complex Workflow Engine deployment (Temporal) in Kubernetes leveraging Cassandra and Elasticsearch ( originally Postgres only).
• Establishing an on-call rota for an engineering group.
• Migrating a billing system, collaborating with multiple stakeholders across the business.
• Mentoring people across the organisation (Databases and Kubernetes)
• Running an architecture workgroup, exercising our systems-thinking muscle in a fun puzzle solving group.
• Representing the group in a company-wide initiative (gearing Snyk to multiple production environments)

Start -up/scale-up SaaS company providing a platform for audio/video transcription workflow tooling.

My role developed from individual contributor to tech lead focussed on retention and customer

acquisition team.

Coaching and mentoring other team members, helping shape core processes such as asynchronous

communication, stand-up format, and delivery of features. Championing a strong dev-ops culture,

driving high-confidence alerting and observability in production.

I facilitated architecting and planning through a series of feedback garnering spikes in the initial stages

of an event -driven analytics pipeline.

In this role I coached other team members, helping shape core processes such as asynchronous

communication, stand-up format, and delivery of features. Championing a strong dev-ops culture,

driving high-confidence alerting and observability in production.

As an individual contributor, some of my notable achievements include:

• Led an auth rewrite, improving security and delivering capability-driven roles. This allowed enterprise customers to customise their security roles matching their company policies.
• Delivering a translation feature at half the cost of the spike, enabling a wider rollout to lower price plans.
• Led a project modernising Frontend dev-tooling, improving build times and devex. This work improved overall performance by reducing time-to-interactive on high-value pages by 15%