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.

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.