Andrew Morton
Staff Software Engineer at Drata
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Morton is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in Denver with 17 years of experience leading teams and shipping integrations, observability, and backend systems across startups and enterprise environments. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to well-known open source projects like the Cinder creative coding library and key Ruby/Node libraries—with pragmatic management: running 1:1s, setting quarterly goals, and improving on-call burden and sprint predictability. At Drata and prior at Recurly and Amazon he architected and delivered third-party integrations, monitoring dashboards, and revenue-driving features while mentoring teams and standing up local offices. His open-source work shows breadth from C++ creative tooling to Ruby RabbitMQ consumers and Node native bindings, often improving robustness, security, and test coverage. Notably he co-authored a technical book, led trainings and conference talks, and has a track record of turning legacy workflows into automated, measurable processes. He combines a developer-first mindset with operational rigor to consistently improve reliability and delivery velocity.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Portland State University
English
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Github Skills (32)
ajax10
unit-testing10
protected10
c-language10
quickbooks10
jquery10
apidoc10
rspec10
message-queue10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
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error-handling10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
justinlatimer/node-midi
Dec 2013 - Jun 2016
A node.js wrapper for RtMidi providing MIDI I/O
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 releases, 38 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the `node-midi` library's functionality and stability. They fixed a critical bug related to resource management in the C++ code, preventing a segmentation fault. Furthermore, they implemented a suite of unit tests using Mocha and Should to improve the library's reliability, along with added tests for opening ports, and virtual ports. These changes included updating the codebase to be compatible with newer versions of Node.js.
midinodejs
ruckus/quickbooks-ruby
Oct 2016 - Jan 2020
Quickbooks Online REST API V3 - Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 12 PRs, 103 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `quickbooks-ruby` library, focusing on improving error handling and adding new functionality. They implemented specific exceptions for rate limiting, 404 (Not Found), and 413 (Request Too Large) HTTP responses, enhancing the robustness of the library. Additionally, the user updated the library to allow passing query parameters with batch requests and improved the error reporting by including additional detail in authorization failures. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and modernized testing components.
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