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Alex Morgan

Staff Full Stack Engineer

Staff Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting resilient cloud-native distributed systems, high-performance developer platforms, and modern web applications. Proven track record of scaling platforms to 120M+ daily events, leading zero-downtime architecture migrations, optimizing infrastructure efficiency by 40%+, and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

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Work Experience

Jan 2022 — Present

Staff Software Engineer

@ CloudScale Technologies
  • Spearheaded the design and rollout of an event-driven distributed streaming platform processing 120M+ events/day using Apache Kafka and Ruby on Rails.
  • Reduced P99 API latency from 420ms to 85ms and cut AWS cloud infrastructure overhead by $140,000 annually.
  • Led cross-functional squad of 10 senior engineers; introduced automated canary CI/CD workflows achieving 99.995% service uptime.
Mar 2019 — Dec 2021

Senior Full Stack Engineer

@ Nova Interactive Labs
  • Designed and engineered high-performance enterprise dashboards using React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Redis caching.
  • Built real-time collaborative workspace features adopted by 250,000+ daily active users, boosting 30-day retention by 32%.
  • Championed end-to-end test automation strategies resulting in a 65% reduction in production regressions.
Jun 2017 — Feb 2019

Software Engineer

@ Hyperion Systems
  • Developed multi-tenant SaaS billing and subscription pipelines integrating Stripe and idempotent webhook event processors.
  • Modernized legacy monolithic codebase into modular Ruby gems and reusable UI components across 40+ enterprise apps.
  • Partnered with product and UX design teams to build an accessible, WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant design system.
May 2016 — May 2017

Associate Software Engineer

@ PixelCraft Studio
  • Implemented responsive frontend interfaces and optimized client-side asset delivery, reducing average page load time by 1.8 seconds.
  • Contributed to automated integration test suites and created internal documentation for engineering onboarding.

Featured Projects

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Pulse Analytics Engine

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Real-time distributed telemetry and streaming analytics platform aggregating 10,000+ metrics/sec with automated anomaly detection, WebSocket feeds, and interactive time-series dashboards.

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OmniCLI Developer Toolkit

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Lightweight, cross-platform developer command-line suite with 4,500+ GitHub stars. Automates cloud environment provisioning, container orchestration, and secret rotation across dev teams.

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CloudMesh Service Router

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Ultra low-latency HTTP/gRPC proxy and traffic management service featuring distributed circuit breakers, adaptive rate limiting, and end-to-end telemetry integration.

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TaskFlow AI Automation

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Intelligent workflow automation engine featuring real-time collaborative state synchronization, webhooks dispatch, and smart workload scheduling.

Skills & Expertise

Ruby on Rails Expert
React & TypeScript Expert
PostgreSQL & Redis Expert
System Architecture Expert
Docker & Kubernetes Advanced
GraphQL & REST APIs Expert
Apache Kafka Advanced
AWS Cloud & DevOps Advanced
Next.js & Web Standards Advanced
Microservices & Caching Expert
Python & Go Proficient
CI/CD & Monitoring Advanced

Academic Details

Stanford University

Master of Science (M.S.) in Distributed Systems & Cloud Computing
2017 — 2019

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics
2013 — 2017

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Amazon Web Services Apr 2023
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sep 2022
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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Jan 2024
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Key Achievements & Honors

ACM Global Hackathon 1st Place Winner

Ranked #1 out of 450+ international engineering teams for developing a real-time distributed edge analytics engine.

CloudScale Innovation & Leadership Award

Awarded top engineering honors for orchestrating zero-downtime database and streaming migration with zero data loss.

Top Open Source Contributor

Core contributor to widely adopted Ruby and TypeScript open-source ecosystem libraries with 1M+ downloads.

Languages & Communication

English

Native / Bilingual Fluency (Technical writing & public speaking)

German

Professional Working Proficiency (B2/C1)

Spanish

Conversational Proficiency