Alex Morgan

Senior Software Engineer

About Me

Senior software engineer with 8+ years building scalable web platforms, distributed services and developer tooling. Owns systems end to end, from architecture to CI/CD and observability, and is known for cutting latency and cloud spend.

Work Experience

Senior Software EngineerJan 2022 - Present
Nimbus Technologies · City, Country
  • Re-architected the checkout service into event-driven Go microservices, cutting p95 API latency by 62%.
  • Led a Kubernetes and Terraform migration that saved roughly $180K a year in cloud costs.
  • Introduced contract testing and trunk-based delivery, raising deploy frequency from weekly to 25+ per week.
Software EngineerJul 2019 - Dec 2021
Bytecraft Labs · City, Country
  • Built a React and TypeScript dashboard framework reused across 14 product modules.
  • Designed a PostgreSQL partitioning strategy for 3B+ rows, making reports 8x faster.
Junior DeveloperJun 2017 - Jun 2019
Codeforge Solutions · City, Country
  • Delivered 12 REST APIs in Java and Spring Boot and automated regression tests, cutting QA time by 40%.

Selected Projects

Real-time Payments GatewayGo · Kafka · PostgreSQL · gRPC

Event-driven gateway processing 2M+ transactions a day at 99.98% uptime, with idempotent retries and full audit trails.

Internal Developer PortalReact · TypeScript · GraphQL

Self-service portal for service scaffolding, docs and deploy status. It cut new-service setup from 2 days to 20 minutes.