Graham Mooney
@grahammooney
Systems-focused backend engineer specializing in distributed computation, cloud-native microservices.
CanadaWhat I'm looking for
I am a systems-focused backend engineer specializing in distributed computation, operating systems, and networking, with 15+ years of professional experience and a strong emphasis on cloud-native microservices and infrastructure abstractions.
I have delivered production-grade platform services and features at scale across AWS, GCP, Azure, and bare-metal environments, including multi-region HA standards, multi-cloud dataplane abstractions, and Consul-as-a-Service. I prioritize MVP-first delivery, SLOs, continuous delivery, and measurable customer value while driving cross-functional alignment with security, SRE, and legal stakeholders.
My technical strengths include Go, Python, gRPC, protobuf, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and HashiStack tooling, and I combine hands-on engineering with leadership in platform strategy, incident response, and mentoring to ship resilient systems and evolve products rapidly.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
Ghost Security
May 2024 - May 2025 (1 year)
Drove continuous iteration of an AI-native application security platform, building a gRPC Golang microservices mesh on GCP and integrating RAG pipelines to synthesize security context across AWS, Azure, and Git environments.
HALed the Platform Systems team and engineered core services for HashiCorp Cloud Platform, delivering multi-region disaster recovery standards and foundational multi-cloud abstractions like Dataplane Manager and Image Pipeline.
Technical Leader
Cisco / OpenDNS
Dec 2015 - Oct 2019 (3 years 10 months)
Led Systems Engineering to deliver a hybrid platform abstraction and operated container, network, and secret management across 26 datacenters using Kubernetes, Consul, Vault and global Anycast routing to improve latency and resilience.
AIEngineered and launched features for AWS Route 53 and RDS, orchestrated distributed control-plane operations with SWF, and managed large-scale fleet operations and CI/CD to ensure high availability and resiliency.
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
Jun 2010 - Feb 2013 (2 years 8 months)
Developed control plane protocols (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP) for Cisco IOS/NX-OS, built modular test automation and regression suites, and enforced RFC-compliant TDD practices to improve protocol reliability.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Glasgow
MSci, Computing Science
2005 - 2010
Grade: First Class Honours
Activities and societies: Thesis research on compact routing; publications including a conference paper on Compact Routing on the Internet AS-Graph.
MSci in Computing Science with a thesis investigating compact routing algorithms on the Internet AS graph, including simulation of routing protocols across large-scale network topologies.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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Location
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