Surfworks Energy Consulting delivers infrastructure across ML acceleration, storage networking, computational storage, and data protection. Founded by Morris Meyer in Sterling, Virginia.
Four active projects spanning the full systems stack — from FPGA bitstreams to GPU compilers to kernel modules to cross-language data protection.
High-performance Go/Java serialization layer using Apache Fory, achieving 1.5–1.9× faster throughput than Google Protobuf through hand-optimized serializers with deferred error checking. Hardened two-process container architecture using GraalVM native-image and musl static linking — 9.2 MB scratch container, zero inherited CVEs.
High-performance file transfer engine targeting wire-speed on 100 GbE Mellanox links using JDK 26 QUIC transport, memory-mapped zero-copy I/O, BBRv2 congestion control, and multi-stream virtual-thread parallelism with zero per-packet allocation. NVMe-oF-QUIC Linux kernel module with TLS 1.3, CNSA 2.0 crypto, x86_64 and ARM64.
Open-source ML compiler eliminating GPU vendor lock-in with equivalent NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm backends through pure Java FFM bindings — no native JNI code. Full GraalPy PyTorch-to-GPU pipeline spanning model tracing, StableHLO IR, and hardware-specific code generation targeting cuBLAS and hipBLAS.
Domain-specific language compiling pipeline programs to FPGA bitstreams and eBPF bytecode for computational storage, built on GraalVM Truffle and ANTLR. Applied to a GPU-accelerated whole-genome variant calling pipeline with zero-copy BAM parsing, SIMD-vectorized analysis, and RDMA-networked custom lab hardware.
Senior Systems Architect with 39 years of software and computer engineering experience across energy, embedded systems, security, and high-performance storage. Previously at Wärtsilä (Senior Systems Architect, GEMS energy operating system), Greensmith (IEC 62443 cybersecurity certification, SCADA commissioning), and Oracle (JavaFX graphics team lead, HotSpot-Graal GPU compiler for the open-source Sumatra project).
Security lineage traces to Tristrata Security, founded by John Atalla — inventor of the PIN and Hardware Security Module. Career-long focus on environments where security is non-negotiable: IEC 62443 for industrial control systems, air-gapped DoD networks, and zero-CVE container architectures.
Purdue BSCE. Penn State MS in Renewable Energy & Sustainability Systems. Six years on the JDK platform at Oracle. 30 years of Java.