Alex Morgan
Senior Full-Stack Engineer · San Francisco, CA
Full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable web products from the ground up. I thrive working across the entire stack — from database design and API architecture to responsive UIs. I'm driven by shipping high-quality software that solves real problems and by helping teams grow and work better together.
Work Experience
Acme Corp - San Francisco, CA (Remote)
Led development of the company's core SaaS platform, growing it from 500 to 10,000 active users. Architected microservices migration and championed frontend performance improvements that cut page load time by 40%.
- Designed and built a real-time collaboration feature used by 80% of customers within 3 months of launch.
- Reduced API response times by 60% through query optimisation and caching strategies.
- Mentored a team of 4 junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming sessions.
Bright Labs - New York, NY
Built and maintained multiple client web applications across e-commerce, healthcare, and fintech verticals. Collaborated closely with designers and product managers to ship features on tight timelines.
- Delivered 12 client projects from discovery to production in under 2 years.
- Introduced GraphQL across two flagship projects, reducing over-fetching and improving DX.
- Built a reusable component library adopted as the company's internal design system.
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
Graduated with honours. Specialised in software systems and distributed computing. Final-year thesis on optimising distributed consensus algorithms received the department's outstanding project award.