Morgan Lyddon

Building software, solving problems, and leading teams.

My career has moved through application development, data, engineering leadership, and now building a software company. Each role has changed how I think about systems, teams, and useful change.

Professional experience

Roles that shaped how I think about software, systems, and the people doing the work.

  1. February 2026–Present

    Partner

    Blueprint Software LLC

    Leads architecture, delivery, and long-term reliability.

    • Brings 20+ years of technology leadership to custom software and complex business problems.
    • Works hands-on across problem framing, architecture, software development, delivery, and production support.
    • Builds client solutions and internal software across Blueprint’s companies.

  2. March 2025–February 2026

    Senior Software Engineer I (Leader)

    Principal Financial Group

    Leads two engineering teams responsible for enterprise integration and content-management platforms.

    • Owns managed file transfer and job-scheduling platforms supporting thousands of daily file movements and billions of dollars in business transactions.
    • Directs consolidation of legacy transfer systems onto GoAnywhere, spanning infrastructure, automation, risk, and reliability.
    • Sets roadmaps for a content ecosystem containing more than 2 billion documents across hybrid on-premises and AWS environments.

  3. December 2024–March 2025

    Software Engineering Manager

    LINQ

    Led three cross-functional teams delivering cloud-based SaaS products for K–12 operations.

    • Owned the technology roadmap and aligned engineering priorities with product and business goals.
    • Led hiring, development, delivery metrics, and process improvements across .NET, Angular, and Java teams.
    • Guided secure AWS architecture using Auth0, Cognito, EventBridge, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and EC2.

  4. September 2022–November 2024

    Software Engineering Manager

    Ag Leader Technology

    Led technical strategy, DevOps, UI/UX, and product delivery across three precision-agriculture development teams.

    • Moved legacy source control and CI/CD onto GitLab and modernized Azure APIs from .NET Framework to .NET 7 and later.
    • Guided embedded-display, database, and API architecture while serving as product owner for a DevOps team.
    • Owned department staffing, budget, technical direction, and engineer development.

  5. November 2016–August 2022

    Software Engineering Manager

    Casey's General Stores, Inc.

    Led teams delivering store, kitchen, inventory, data, warehouse, and yard-management systems for 2,300 locations and three distribution centers.

    • Defined mobile and Azure cloud strategies and delivered integrations across Oracle Cloud ERP, OCI, and IBM EDI.
    • Modernized mainframe applications and development tooling while moving teams from waterfall to Scrum and Kanban.
    • Owned staffing, budget, technical direction, and prioritization across in-house, contractor, and vendor products.

  6. September 2021–October 2021

    Lead Software Engineer

    J&P Cycles, LLC

    Delivered ecommerce features for J&P Cycles, RevZilla, and Cycle Gear, with a focus on product discovery and SEO.

    • Took features from concept to production using .NET, Elixir, SQL Server, Postgres, TeamCity, and CircleCI.

  7. May 2015–November 2016

  8. December 2014–May 2015

  9. September 2014–December 2014

    Data Analyst

    Businessolver

    Improved EDI and ETL workflows for benefits-administration data.

    • Automated import and export processes that previously required manual data handling.

  10. May 2008–August 2014

    IT Application Associate II

    Principal Financial Group

    Built and modernized retirement-investment systems across Java and mainframe platforms.

    • Automated manual work and physical document printing, contributing approximately $2 million in annual savings.
    • Worked across design, coding, testing, integration, and deployment for distributed Java and mainframe applications.

Still learning

Formal study alongside the lessons that come from doing the work.

  • Expected May 2027

    Bachelor of Science in Data Science

    Bellevue University

  • May 2009

    Associate of Applied Science, Computer Programmer/Analyst

    Indian Hills Community College