Andy Morrell

Technical Architect · Microsoft MVP

Engineering leader, technical architect, and former Microsoft MVP with 20+ years of experience across the full stack. Deep expertise in .NET (v1 through to v10), JavaScript/TypeScript, Azure and AWS cloud platforms, and DevOps practices. Known for modernising legacy platforms, leading and mentoring multi-national development teams, and pioneering AI-driven ways of working — as well as being an active voice in the developer community through live coding, speaking, and writing.

Experience

Principal Software Engineer

TelXL Ltd · Redditch

Mar 2024 — Present

› Designed and ran an enterprise-wide generative AI pilot using Claude, securing executive and board approval in March 2026 to scale AI accelerators across Dev, QA, Product, and TechOps.
› Leadership in mentoring, coaching and teaching the development team in new technologies.
› Establishing architecture for new features and modernisation of the established platform, covering both cloud-native and on-premises software and hardware.
› Architecture spanning AKS, K3s, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
› Proof of concept designs for integrated telephony systems into new and existing platforms.

Managing Director & Head of Development

Slevinth Heaven Ltd · Cheltenham

Jan 2020 — Feb 2024

› Recognised by Twitch Interactive and placed on their partnered developer list for third-party development work.
› Delivered and maintained https://featured.chat, adopted and further funded by Twitch as a client from Jan 2020.
› Managed a distributed remote team across the UK, Germany, and France with a US-based client.
› Worked with clients including Twitch, GrabLabs, Paradox Interactive, and C-Serv across multiple Statements of Work.

Lead Developer

White Springs Ltd · Banbury

Oct 2018 — Jan 2020

› Introduced Cloud and Application Architect expertise to the team, becoming the go-to for Azure and backend development.
› Deepened front-end skills in React and Vue.js alongside a specialist front-end Lead Developer counterpart.

Lead Developer & Application Architect

Enterprise Study Ltd · Cheltenham

Feb 2015 — Oct 2018

› Promoted to Lead Developer and Application Architect in Autumn 2016.
› Designed and led a complete technology stack replacement from UI to database — Vue.js, TypeScript, IdentityServer4, .NET Core, and Entity Framework.
› Drove the team's transition from a monolithic application towards a micro-service architecture.
› Agile/Scrum delivery with TDD and continuous build practices throughout.

Senior Developer

Ecclesiastical Insurance · Gloucester

June 2012 — Feb 2015

› Integral member of the .NET team working with SharePoint 2007–2013, Tridion, Microsoft Dynamics, and MVC.
› Led a small team of developers on large projects after moving into a senior role within the first year.
› Key project — replacing the broker extranet and creating a new customer extranet using ADFS, Web API, WCF, OData, Workflow Foundation, and Hot Towel SPA framework.

Developer / Senior Developer

The College of Law · Guildford

Mar 2008 — June 2012

› C#, VB.NET, .NET 2.0–3.5, MVC, WCF, AJAX, jQuery, and SharePoint 2007.

Developer

Cubiks Ltd · Guildford

Mar 2006 — Mar 2008

› C#, T-SQL, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, and Formatting Objects Protocol.

Skills

Languages & Runtimes

C#TypeScriptJavaScriptT-SQLVB.NET

Frameworks & Libraries

.NET / ASP.NET CoreReactVue.jsNode.jsNext.jsEntity FrameworkIdentityServer

Cloud & Infrastructure

AzureAWSAKSK3sDockernginxKubernetes

Messaging & Data

Azure Service BusRabbitMQRedisSQL ServerCosmosDBNoSQL

Practices & Tooling

DDDMicro-service architectureCI/CDTDDAgile / ScrumDevOps

Community & Achievements

Microsoft MVP — Developer Technologies

2020–2023

Awarded the Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies for contributions to the developer community, including three years of live coding and teaching on Twitch. Renewed annually through 2023.

The Live Coders Conference — Lead Producer & Speaker

Apr 2020

Lead Producer and speaker at the first Live Coders Conference on Twitch (9th April 2020). Peak of 15,000 concurrent viewers, 850,000 unique viewers, and over 3.2 million minutes of watch time. Spoke on "Finding your niche, how to stay relevant in your career".

Dev Around The Sun — Charity Stream Producer

May 2020

Speaker & Co-Organiser — TwitchCon Developer Meetup, San Diego

Aug 2019

Twitch sponsored a Developer Meetup in place of their usual developer day. Acted as speaker and co-organiser.

Speaker — TwitchCon Developer Day, San Jose CA

Oct 2018

Invited to speak at TwitchCon Developer Day on the common pitfalls of Twitch Extension development.

Microsoft Blog — Remote Working for the Masses

Apr 2020

Published Industry Writer

2020–2021

Independent technical writer for ContentLab, delivering commissioned articles across a range of technologies against 14-day briefs, and a contributor to the Microsoft TechNet UK industry blog.

Education

BSc Computer Science

University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

2001–2004

A-Levels — Computing, Maths with Mechanics, Geography, General Studies

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School

2001

GCSEs — 9 subjects including Maths, English, IT, Science

Bowland County High School, Clitheroe

1999

Interests

Technical Streaming

Host regular live-coding sessions on Twitch, exploring emerging frameworks such as .NET 10 and Next.js before putting them to work commercially.

Active Pursuits

Keen road cyclist, and a follower of American football and motorsport.