Graham Morley
Software Engineer & Technical Leader

Graham Morley

AIwritescodequickly.

Knowingwhattowritetakesexperience.

I'm a Canadian software engineer with 15 years of production experience. My current focus is building AI-native systems, including keeping LLM systems reliable once real users depend on them. I use AI agents daily and publish my own agentic tooling and MCP servers. I've founded companies and led distributed teams, which is where the product and commercial judgment comes from.

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What I've Built

From the Portfolio

Senior EngineerSept 2024 — Oct 2025

Crystal aOS

AI-Powered Legal Compliance Platform

Techstars
Accepted
PE
Funded
SOC 2
+ ISO 27001

I was one of two engineers who built this legal compliance platform, and after the MVP I was the longest-tenured engineer and the technical continuity through several rotations of CTOs and contract engineers. I built the frontend, backend, admin area, document ingestion tooling, the chat view and its orchestration layer, business accounts with member management, Stripe billing, and PII stripping. During my tenure the company reached SOC 2 Type 1 and ISO 27001, was accepted into Techstars, and secured private equity funding.

  • MVP secured private equity investment and Techstars acceptance
  • Maintained technical continuity through multiple rounds of contract engineers
  • Scoped data residency requirement, managed specialist subcontractor delivery
  • Contributed to SOC 2 Type 1 and ISO 27001 certification controls
  • LLMOps: prompt engineering, model evaluation, RAG tuning, AI output monitoring
AI / LLMLegal TechRAG PipelinesComplianceLLMOps
Case Study
Founder & Technical LeadNov 2021 — Aug 2023

Paideia

Governance & Treasury Management Platform

$20M
AUM
Catalyst
Grant Funded
Global
Distributed Team

I was the founder of this governance and treasury platform, and I assembled and led the distributed team across multiple countries that built it. I led the threat modeling and the design decisions, wrote the grant application that secured Cardano Catalyst funding, and directed the UX lifecycle from research through engineering handoff. The team built much of the platform, and the on-chain contracts were written by another engineer on the team.

  • Wrote the grant application and secured Cardano Catalyst funding
  • Directed UX team: research, wireframes, prototypes, acceptance criteria, handoff
  • Managed team composition over four years: hiring, replacing, restructuring
  • Zero unplanned downtime during my tenure
GovernanceTreasuryDistributed TeamsGrant FundedObservability
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Founder & Technical LeadNov 2025 — Feb 2026

CTCGX

Peer-to-Peer Trading Card Marketplace

Public
API
Solo
Build
Stripe
Connect

Designed and built a complete peer-to-peer marketplace solo over roughly three months, covering listings, search, ordering, payments, fulfillment, and seller tools. It runs on Stripe Connect escrow for multi-party payments, a Shopify sync that eases seller onboarding, data pipelines that normalize catalog data across external sources, and a public API.

  • Complete marketplace: listing, search, ordering, payments, fulfillment
  • Stripe Connect escrow for multi-party payments
  • Shopify sync to reduce seller onboarding friction
  • Data pipelines for catalog normalization across external datasets
E-CommerceMarketplacePaymentsSolo Build
Case Study
Engineering LeadSept 2023 — Aug 2024

Coinecta

Token Launch & Investment Platform

Audited
Contracts
KYC
Integrated
3
Tech Stacks

Led engineering while defining product requirements across the platform. Drove corporate registration and compliance strategy across El Salvador and the United States, managing local counsel in both jurisdictions and hiring a Compliance Officer through a direct search.

  • Corporate registration and compliance across El Salvador and US
  • KYC vendor evaluation and identity verification integration
  • Managed smart contract auditing: vendor selection, remediation, deployment
  • Release coordination across TypeScript, C#, and on-chain contracts
FintechComplianceKYCMulti-Jurisdiction
Founder & Technical LeadMay 2023 — Nov 2023

Crux Finance

DeFi Portfolio Management & Crypto Accounting

Live
In Production
Tax
Ready Reports
Official
Ergo Ecosystem

Built the web application and crypto accounting pipeline for a DeFi portfolio management platform in the Ergo ecosystem, while a separate engineer built the Rust backend. Designed and implemented wallet aggregation, transaction categorization, and tax-ready reporting that traders and investors use for filing.

  • Built entire crypto accounting pipeline from transaction ingestion to tax reporting
  • TradingView-integrated charting with real-time market data
  • Aggregates transaction history across multiple DeFi protocols in a unified timeline
  • Listed as an official tool in Ergo ecosystem documentation
DeFiAccountingCryptoData Pipelines
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Work With Me

What I'm Looking For

I work best on teams building AI-native products where I can take problems from architecture through production. I've operated as an individual contributor (IC), an engineering team lead across multiple countries, and a solo builder delivering end-to-end applications in short timeframes. I'm most effective when I'm close to both the code and the business decisions.

Software Engineer
Full-Stack Engineer
Engineering Manager
Technical Project Manager
Program Manager
Technical Leadership
Product Manager

Remote from British Columbia, Canada. Available for distributed teams worldwide.

I also consult through Morley Media Group.