From homelabs to smart gardens and off-grid solar experiments… 

From raw machine language in the 1990s to cloud architecture and chaos engineering today, I’ve rebuilt systems at every scale. This isn’t a hobby — it’s a lifelong obsession with elegant code and self-healing systems.

I’m Andrew Morty, a veteran software engineer of 27 years, DevOps/SRE lead, with a 14-year stint as a VP at JPMorgan. I led development teams from Glasgow to London and New York to Mumbai. I tackled 3am blazes across time zones. I helped steer a 25-million-line codebase through the fires of production. I turned chaos into uptime. Migrated legacy Monoliths into microservices, reshaping architecture.

MortyLabs is my personal sandbox — where I have fun with code again. No meetings or conference calls – just me, Kubernetes, Python, home automation, my soldering iron, and a relentless curiosity for how things work.

Current obsession? Automated gardening. I’ve wired my vegetables to the cloud — fusing soil sensors, hydroponic pumps, solar power, data dashboards, and cloud logic to care for plants like a digital druid. It’s where software meets soil. Just like DevOps… but for tomatoes. And yes, my garden has an uptime SLA.

All source code and firmware is free and available on GitHub