MORGAN SZIRAKI
27 Ashbourne Grove
East Dulwich
London, UK SE22 8RN
morgan.sziraki@gmail.com
+44 779 989 5560
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganismdev/ GitHub - https://git.morganism.dev/
I am an experienced SRE, Technical Team Lead, and cloud-based solution developer within the SmartHome IoT technology space, telecoms, finance, gaming and medical industries. My recent engagement with Scalpel AI - https://scalpel.ai has provided a need to research, explore and experiment with technologies in the AI, ML, and LLM space that are immediately applicable to the Scalpel tech stack; understanding the abilities and limitations of “AI” has proved very valuable.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Key Roles
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2025 - 2026: Senior DevOps Engineer
Providing tooling, AWS expertise and Cloud domain expertise designing hybrid ML model training. -
2024 - 2025: Senior Platform Engineer
Responsible for ensuring AWS services are optimized and running. -
2023 - 2024: Senior DevOps Engineer Focused on automation of game asset delivery, package distribution, and build tooling.
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2019 - 2022: SRE Tech Lead, IoT Cloud Engineering Team
Provided technical direction and SME support for Hive platforms deployed in production and staging. -
2018 - 2019: SRE / DevOps Engineer
Developed systems to monitor platform performance, ensure uptime, automate rollouts, and monitor costs. -
2017 - 2018: Platform Software Developer
Designed and implemented components for various service platforms. -
2015 - 2017: Deployment Engineer
Developed components for a Ruby-based configuration and orchestration system. -
2000 - 2015: Senior Consultant
Specialized in telephony switch provisioning, mediation systems, and interconnect billing. -
1995 - 2000: Web Developer
Focused on integrating legacy systems with websites to create dynamic, online applications.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- DevOps / SRE Technical Team Lead
- Kubernetes, GitOps, K3s, Docker, Docker-Compose, Docker-Swarm, Vagrant
- Portainer, K9s
- Linux, unix Administration, networking since 1996, Kali and security tools
- Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Kotlin, Java, Python, Perl, C, Shell, Expect
- SQL, NoSQL, MySQL, Postgres, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, Redis, AuroraDb, Neo4J (Graph DB)
- Jira, PagerDuty
- AWS: Cloudformation, VPC, EC2, Autoscaling Groups, Subnets, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Event Bridge
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban
- Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, Mosquitto
- IaC: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform
- Monitoring: Wavefront, CloudWatch, Grafana, Kibana, DataDog
WORK HISTORY
Scalpel Limited, London UK (06.2025 - present)
Senior DevOps Engineer
- Research and evalute recent AI techmologies to improve model training and performance
- Creation and provision of specialised LLM development environments
- Design and automate AWS infrastructure provisioning
- development of bespoke linux distro
- designing and integrating Terraform IaC Management + GitOps
- providing cloud domain expertise to improve ML model training
- linux administration
Zilch Technology, London UK (08.2024 - 03.2025)
Senior Platform Engineer
- Maintain AWS infrastructure
- managed services via Kubernetes
- last line of support to ensure critical financial services are always up and running
- Terraform development to manage AWS Infrastracture
- linux development and administration
- support for maintaining External promotion asset distribution
Supermassive Games, Guildford, UK (03.2023 – 04.2024)
DevOps, LiveOps
- Transitioned traditional AAA game development to cloud-based LiveOps.
- Designed and implemented CDN mirroring on Fastly’s Edge to enhance performance and reduce costs.
- Created infrastructure for containerized game servers using K8s and Thundernetes.
- Automated asset mirroring, package distribution, and other processes.
- Linux administration
- EC2 linux instance configuration via GitOps
- Kubernetes configuration management vi GitOps and Flux
- Created Unreal MacOS buid tooling
Centrica Hive, London, UK (07.2015 – 05.2022)
SRE Technical Lead, DevOps
- Developed Ruby-based deployment and orchestration systems for AWS.
- Implemented Kafka messaging architecture.
- Built cost-monitoring tools and enhanced platform security.
- Created Docker images for integration testing.
- Ansible and Puppet based IaC
- Created build pipelines using github actions, Teamcity, AWS tooling
- Linux administration and kernel mods to support Java devs
- Observability using Wavefront, Cloudwatch, Kibana with Elasitic Search (+ Lua development)
Cartesian, London, UK (05.2000 – 06.2015)
Senior Consultant
Highlights:
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with AWS and custom Ruby/Python scripts.
- Designed modular OO Perl frameworks for billing assurance.
- Delivered mediation system migrations and training across various clients.
- Managed linux systems for optimised performance
Client Engagements:
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The Cloud: Developed internal, virtualized infrastructure using Chef and Ruby.
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SKY (UK/Ireland): Automated call generation using BluGem and Perl.
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Virgin Media, ntl, Telewest: Developed telephony switch data extraction software using Perl::Expect.
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**Base Telecom (Brussels) : reverse engineered CRM using plsql
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**Vodafone (Ireland) : in situ replacement of Mediation systems
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**IBM (Hursley Park) : SME for mediation system switch for O2
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NTL, Telewest, Cable & Wireless, Three, O2, EE, TDC (Denmark)
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Linux administration, product deployment, mediation and provisioning SME
EDUCATION
University of California San Diego
1984–1990
Degree: Microbiology & Biochemistry (Emphasis on bioinformatics)
Minor: Music
INTERESTS
- Rugby enthusiast and former Southwark Tigers RFC coach.
- Passionate about open-source software and SmartHome integration projects.
- Enthusiastic cook and reader of books such as Catch-22, Snowcrash, and Cryptonomicon.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.