Morgan Sziraki

$ Principal DevOps & Platform Engineer · SRE Technical Lead_

📍London, UK ✉morgan.sziraki@gmail.com ☎+44 779 989 5560 inmorganismdev ⌥git.morganism.dev 📎PDF Version
35+ yrs IT Open Source Ruby · DevOps · AWS
Profile
Principal DevOps and Platform Engineer with 35+ years in IT — over 20 specialising in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and platform engineering. Deep expertise across AWS, GCP, and hybrid/on-premise environments, with a proven record delivering production-grade infrastructure for fintech, gaming, IoT/SmartHome, telecoms, and media. Practitioner of GitOps, IaC-first engineering, and Unix-philosophy tooling. Recent experience encompasses ML model training environments, LoRA-based LLM fine-tuning, and graph-database-accelerated inference pipelines. Active open-source contributor; principal language: Ruby.
Technical Skills
Cloud PlatformsAWS (primary), GCP, Azure
Containers & Orch.Kubernetes, K3s, Docker, Docker-Compose, Docker-Swarm, Vagrant, Portainer, K9s, Thundernetes
IaCTerraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
CI/CD & GitOpsGitHub Actions, TeamCity, Flux, GitOps patterns
LanguagesRuby · Rails · Sinatra · Python · Perl · Shell · Kotlin · Java · C · Lua
DatabasesMySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DynamoDB, AuroraDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Neo4J, SQLite
MessagingKafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, Mosquitto
ObservabilityGrafana, DataDog, CloudWatch, Wavefront, Kibana, PagerDuty
CDN / EdgeFastly Edge
ML / AI InfraLLM fine-tuning (LoRA), graph-DB-accelerated inference, bespoke Linux distro builds
PracticesSRE, DevOps, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, GitOps, IaC-first engineering
Professional Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer May 2026 – Present

Transform UK · London

  • Working with HMRC to provide a state of the art Online Trade & Tariff service
  • Improvement of existing observability capabilities and design of novel tooling
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipeline
  • Complement and improve existing DevOps team and capabilities
Senior DevOps Engineer Jun 2025 – Jan 2026

Scalpel Ltd · London

  • Researched and evaluated AI/ML technologies to accelerate model training and inference performance
  • Designed hybrid ML model training environments on AWS, including a bespoke Linux distribution
  • Built and integrated Terraform IaC management + GitOps pipeline from the ground up
  • Automated AWS + GCP infrastructure provisioning; provided multi-cloud domain expertise organisation-wide
Senior Platform Engineer Aug 2024 – Mar 2025

Zilch Technology · London

  • Maintained and optimised AWS infrastructure for critical financial services
  • Last-line support ensuring financial platform uptime via Kubernetes-managed services
  • Terraform development for AWS infrastructure; Linux development and administration
  • Supported external promotion asset distribution pipeline
DevOps / LiveOps Engineer Mar 2023 – Apr 2024

Supermassive Games · Guildford

  • Led transition from traditional AAA game development to cloud-based LiveOps model
  • Designed and implemented CDN mirroring on Fastly Edge, reducing latency and costs
  • Built containerised game-server infrastructure using Kubernetes and Thundernetes
  • Kubernetes configuration management via GitOps/Flux across AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • Automated asset mirroring, package distribution, and build pipelines
  • Built Unreal Engine macOS build tooling; EC2 Linux instance configuration via GitOps
SRE Technical Lead · DevOps Jul 2015 – May 2022

Centrica Hive · London

  • Provided technical direction and SME support for Hive IoT platforms in production and staging
  • Developed Ruby-based deployment and orchestration systems for AWS
  • Implemented Kafka messaging architecture and multi-cloud provisioning (AWS + GCP)
  • Built cost-monitoring tools; enhanced platform security posture
  • Created build pipelines using GitHub Actions, TeamCity, and AWS tooling
  • Observability via Wavefront, CloudWatch, Kibana/Elasticsearch (including Lua development)
  • Linux administration and kernel modifications to support Java development teams
Senior Consultant May 2000 – Jun 2015

Cartesian · London

  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with AWS and custom Ruby/Python tooling
  • Designed modular OO Perl frameworks for billing assurance systems
  • Oracle database administration, migration, and reverse engineering
  • Managed Linux systems for optimised performance across multi-client environments

Key Client Engagements

The CloudInternal virtualised infrastructure using Chef and Ruby
SKY UK/IrelandAutomated call generation (BluGem/Perl); Oracle DBA
Virgin Media / ntl / TelewestTelephony switch data extraction via Perl::Expect
Base Telecom (Brussels)Oracle DB migration and CRM reverse engineering
Vodafone IrelandIn-situ replacement of mediation systems
IBM Hursley ParkSME for mediation system switch for O2
Web Developer → Senior Consultant 1995 – 2000

Various

  • Integrated legacy systems with early web applications for dynamic online delivery
  • Telephony switch provisioning, mediation, billing, and database administration
Education

University of California San Diego

BSc Microbiology & Biochemistry (Bioinformatics emphasis) · Minor: Music

1984–1990
Interests & Activities
🏉 Rugby · former Southwark Tigers RFC coach ⌨ Open-source software 🏠 SmartHome integration 🍳 Enthusiastic cook 📚 Catch-22 · Snowcrash · Cryptonomicon