Morgan Larson

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CTO, Fable HQ - Terraform · Kubernetes · Linux

Fable HQ
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
13+ years experience
Rotman School of Management
English
Hiring
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Overview

CTO at Fable HQ, focused on cloud infrastructure. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 438ms to 47ms. Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 12 a week to 1. Before that: Cohere and Amazon. I write short fiction no one reads.

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  • Working sessions on Go
  • Second opinions on incident response decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Crypto token projects

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Skills
incident responseAWSTerraformLinuxPrometheusGoKubernetes
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6 data engineer roles open on the infrastructure team in Toronto

Role
Data engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$150k-$187k
Team
Infrastructure, 15 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Ownership of something end to end
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp C$120k-C$218k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Toronto, ONlinuxterraformgo
Open

Experience

  1. CTO
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Fable HQ · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 29 million requests a day.
    • Grew the infrastructure team from 5 to 25 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 52 services to Linux.
  2. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
    Cohere · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Led the migration of 76 services to incident response.
  3. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
    Amazon · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 26 a week to 3.
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
    BMO · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Led the migration of 65 services to Terraform.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 457ms to 100ms.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
    Google · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Led or co-led 14 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.

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Education

  1. Rotman School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2005 - 2007
  2. Western University
    HBA, Electronics and Communication
    1997 - 2001

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