Tony Morris

Site Reliability Engineer | Software Engineer | Functional Programming Specialist

cv@tmorris.net • 0408711099 • Brisbane, Australia

Summary

Senior software engineer and SRE specialising in functional programming, with extensive experience in building high-assurance, scalable distributed systems and leading engineering teams across cloud and on-prem environments. Expert in applying Scala, Haskell, F#, and other functional languages to production-critical systems with strong correctness and reliability guarantees.

Technical Skills

• Programming: Scala, Haskell, F#, Java, Python, Rust, TypeScript, Clojure

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, Redshift, Lambda, CloudFormation), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Nix

• Streaming & Data: Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Apache Spark, Apache Flink

• Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry

• Build & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Cabal, sbt, Maven

• FP Ecosystems: Scalaz, Cats, ZIO, http4s, GHC, Cabal, HLS

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer | 2026—present

Sirius Beta Labs

• Implementing Situated Reasoning tools using Haskell to enable AI systems to make context-aware decisions, integrating environmental and textual data to support dynamic reasoning.

Senior Software Engineer | 2023—2026

QANTAS Airways Ltd

• Maintaining and scaling backend systems for QANTAS Hotels and Holidays.

• Improved reliability of booking pipelines and integrated monitoring for critical services, reducing incident volume by 80%.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure SLA compliance and customer experience resilience.

Senior Software Engineer | 2022—2023

Boozebud

• Enhanced online retail systems using Scala, focusing on reliability and performance.

• Introduced observability improvements with Kafka-based monitoring dashboards.

Principal Software Consultant | 2020—2022

Simple Machines

• Delivered SRE-focused outcomes for diverse clients:

  • Chatroulette: Built video streaming infrastructure with Apache Pulsar, ensuring low-latency reliability.

  • IAG Insurance: Designed Kafka pipelines for real-time data integration, improving resilience of critical systems.

• Automated container orchestration with Kubernetes/Docker and scaled Spark pipelines for large datasets.

• Architected AWS solutions (S3, EC2, Redshift) with disaster recovery and cost optimisation strategies.

Course Coordinator, Lecturer | 2020—2021

School of ITEE, University of Queensland

Course Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor for COMP3400 Functional & Logic Programming. Semester 1, 2020.

Functional Programming Team Leader | 2015—2020

Queensland FP Lab, Data61, CSIRO

• Led a team of 10 engineers delivering high-assurance systems for government and industry.

• Consumer Data Rights (ACCC): Designed open banking APIs with reliability and compliance guarantees.

• Developed open-source libraries (e.g. hpython) with strong correctness and maintainability focus.

• Delivered training programs on functional programming and reliability engineering.

Professional Experience (aviation)

Senior RA Flight Instructor | 2024—present

Gold Coast Sports Flying Training

Providing ground and in-flight instruction to ab initio students in single-engine, 3-axis aeroplanes. Based at Jacobs Well Heckfield Airport, Brisbane.

Senior RA Flight Instructor & Grade 3 Flight Instructor | 2019—2025

Flightscope Aviation

Providing ground and in-flight instruction to ab initio students in single-engine, 3-axis aeroplanes. Based at Archerfield Airport, Brisbane.

A detailed Aviation CV can be found here: https://aviation.cv.tmorris.net/

Earlier Roles

• Senior Software Engineer | NICTA: Federal government research projects, some spun out into startups.
• Senior Software Engineer | Ephox (Tiny): Built reliable rich-text editors (TinyMCE) used globally.
• Senior Software Engineer | Eyecon, Paycorp, Workingmouse, IBM Tivoli: Focused on compliance, reliability, and scalable enterprise systems.

Key Technical Projects

• Kafka Streaming Reliability: Built resilient pipelines for insurance data integration, reducing downtime and improving SLA compliance.

• Video Streaming Infrastructure: Designed Pulsar-based system for Chatroulette, ensuring low-latency and fault tolerance.

• Open Banking APIs: Delivered ACCC-mandated Consumer Data Rights system with strong reliability guarantees.

• Observability Dashboards: Implemented monitoring solutions with Spark, Kafka, and AWS CloudWatch.

• Disaster Recovery Automation: Architected backup and failover strategies across AWS and Kubernetes clusters.

Open Source Projects

• Scalaz

• Functional Java

• hpython

• waargonaut

• more

Public Speaking

• The Expression Problem, Generalised
  Functional Conf, Bangalore, 2025

• Zippers and Algebra and Stuff
  Functional Conf, Bangalore, 2019

• Functional Programming in Aviation
  Compose Conference, Melbourne, 2017

• An Intuition for List Folds
  LambdaConf, Boulder, 2018

• Comonads, Applicative Functors, Monads and other principled things
  Codemania, Auckland, 2014

• Dependency Injection Without the Gymnastics
  Emerging Technologies, Philadelphia, 2012

• more

Education

2018

Flight Instructor Rating (Aeroplane)

Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

2017

Commercial Pilot Licence (Aeroplane)

Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

2002-2005

Sun Certified Java Programmer & Developer

Sun Microsystems

2001

Bachelor of Information Technology

Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

References

References available upon request.