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Atlanta, GA · Digital garden

Hi, I'm Nathaniel Morgan

Senior Software & Cloud Engineer

A digital garden where technology meets nature

I design and deliver secure, scalable, cloud-native systems — and embed AI into them. That means production GenAI and agentic applications, LLM-powered automation, and human-in-the-loop workflows on top of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD. I like owning the path from messy requirements to services people can actually trust.

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McKinsey & Company

Internal platform

Identity Warehouse API Playground

A self-service web app where developers, QA, product, and support explore identity data through a guided query builder — without cURL or raw API friction.

Time-to-first-query dropped from hours to under 30 seconds, with sensitive fields masked on the server so they never reach the browser.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • AWS
  • Serverless
  • Terraform

McKinsey & Company

Internal platform

IAM Sentinel

A local-first analyzer that pairs Tree-sitter AST parsing with a cost-controlled Claude triage pipeline to surface AuthN, AuthZ, and IdP misconfigurations.

Risks are detected automatically, then fixes land only after an engineer approves the branch — no unreviewed automated changes.

  • Python
  • Tree-sitter
  • Claude
  • GitHub Actions

McKinsey & Company

Internal platform

GenAI Infrastructure-as-Code

A homegrown Python and Terraform framework that stands up GenAI environments with security baselines baked in, instead of assembling them by hand.

Environment provisioning compressed from months to days, with every environment meeting or exceeding production security standards.

  • Python
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • CI/CD

McKinsey & Company

Internal platform

Active Directory MCP platform

A homegrown Active Directory MCP platform that replaced a commercial SaaS suite and turned IAM administration into an API-first service with AI-assisted workflows.

Enterprise IAM work moved onto a service we own — queryable, automatable, and safer to extend.

  • TypeScript
  • MCP
  • Python
  • AWS

McKinsey & Company

Internal platform

IAM cloud-native application

The firm’s first IAM-specific, cloud-native application — an interactive platform for employees to engage the Cybersecurity team.

Security best-practice adoption became something people could actually participate in, not a ticket queue they never saw.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions

Candid

Internal platform

High-volume AWS middleware

AWS middleware that processed more than $20B in annual transactions, plus a migration from a monolith into cloud-native services with Infrastructure as Code.

The platform stayed fast under load while teams gained the agility of smaller, independently deployable services.

  • AWS
  • Node.js
  • Terraform
  • Microservices

Core stack

How I build

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Go

Cloud & infra

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Serverless
  • Kubernetes

CI/CD & DevOps

  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • AWS CodePipeline

Data

  • DynamoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB

Web & app

  • React
  • Node.js
  • REST APIs

AI engineering

  • LLM workflows
  • MCP
  • AST analysis
  • Claude
  • Cursor

Experience

Where I've practiced

  1. Senior DevOps Engineer

    McKinsey & Company

    Jul 2024 – Present · Atlanta, GA

    • Shipped the firm’s first IAM-specific cloud-native application so employees can work with Cybersecurity in the open.
    • Built IAM Sentinel and a human-in-the-loop remediation path so AI-generated fixes never land unreviewed.
    • Modernized the Azure App Registration lifecycle — asset management, secret rotation, and governance — end to end.

  2. Senior DevOps Engineer, Consultant

    McKinsey & Company

    Jan 2021 – Jul 2024 · Atlanta, GA

    • Compressed GenAI environment provisioning from months to days with a Python and Terraform framework.
    • Cut update time 98% across 100+ Terraform isolation-zone configurations.
    • Delivered an Azure GenAI app for contract and invoice extraction, plus a serverless internal learning platform.

  3. Technical Analyst

    Candid

    Jun 2019 – Jan 2021 · Atlanta, GA

    • Ran AWS middleware that processed $20B+ in annual transactions, then helped move a monolith to cloud-native services.
    • Built Node.js tooling and performance/volume test plans so the platform stayed reliable under load.

  4. Senior Paralegal

    Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

    Jan 2011 – Feb 2019 · Atlanta, GA

    • Managed 115–130 employment-immigration cases end to end — the precision and deadline discipline I still bring to engineering.

Education

Study

  • Web Development Immersive

    General Assembly

    2019

  • M.A., International Conflict Analysis

    University of Kent

    2010 · Graduated with Merit

  • B.A., International Relations & Italian

    Roger Williams University

    2009 · Cum Laude

Field notes

Life outside the terminal

  • Bearings Bike Shop

    I volunteer at a community bike shop — wrenches, patience, and getting people back on two wheels.

  • United Way VIP

    Graduate of the United Way Volunteer Involvement Program.

  • Outside hours

    Cycling, hiking, and advanced SCUBA when I can get in the water.

  • Making

    Languages, cooking, and woodworking — analog crafts next to the digital garden.

Trivia

How well do you know me?

Five questions. No trick wiring — just a short walk through the garden.

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Contact

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