Alex Morgan
Professional Summary
Full-stack Software Engineer with 7+ years building scalable web apps and developer tools. Strong background in JavaScript/TypeScript, cloud platforms, and system design. Passionate about clean code, performance, and mentoring teammates.
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science in Software Engineering
State University of Technology
2012-09-01 - 2016-06-01
Graduated with honors. Capstone project: scalable microservices for event processing.
M.Sc. Distributed Systems in Distributed Systems
Graduate School of Computing
2016-09-01 - 2018-06-01
Thesis: fault-tolerant job schedulers for cloud workloads.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Nimbus Labs
2021-07-01 - Present
Led backend team for the company’s analytics product. Designed microservice APIs, improved CPU usage by 35%, and mentored junior engineers.
Software Engineer
BrightWave
2018-08-01 - 2021-06-01
Implemented frontend features using React and TypeScript, built CI pipelines, and collaborated on UX improvements that increased activation rate by 12%.
Skills
Projects
OpenTasks
Task management web app focused on team productivity. Implemented real-time updates and a plugin system for integrations.
Technologies: React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, WebSockets
MetricsAgent
Lightweight service for collecting and shipping application metrics to multiple backends with minimal overhead.
Technologies: Go, Prometheus, Docker
Certifications
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Earned: 2023-06-01
Validated knowledge of AWS services, deployments and best practices.
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Earned: 2022-11-01
Focused on building and deploying cloud-native apps on Kubernetes.