Summary

Senior software engineer with 8 years building reliable, high-scale web platforms. Focused on clean architecture, developer experience, and measurable product impact.

Experience

Northwind Labs|Senior Software Engineer
  • ➜ Led a 5-engineer team rebuilding the billing platform, cutting invoice errors by 38%.
  • ➜ Designed an event-driven ingestion pipeline handling 20M+ events/day.
  • ➜ Mentored 4 engineers and introduced a design-review practice adopted org-wide.
BrightWave|Software Engineer
  • ➜ Shipped the customer dashboard used by 120K monthly active users.
  • ➜ Reduced API p95 latency by 45% through query and caching improvements.

Projects

OpenLedger|Creatorgithub.com/alexmorgan/openledger
  • ➜ Open-source double-entry accounting library with 1.2k stars.

Training & Certifications

  • ➜ AWS Solutions Architect

Skills

TypeScript - React - Node.js - Python - PostgreSQL - AWS - Docker

Languages

English (Native) - Spanish (Professional)

Education

University of Washington

B.S. Computer Science

2013 - 2017

Graduated with honors; ACM chapter lead.

Awards

  • Engineering Excellence Award, 2023