Alex Morgan
Staff Software Engineer
Summary
Senior engineer with 10+ years building reliable payment and logistics platforms. Strong record of mentoring teams, cutting operating costs and shipping on time.
Experience
2021 – Present
Berlin, Germany
Staff Engineer, Northwind Logistics
- Cut costs by ₹2.5L & improved <SLA>
- Led migration of 40 services to Kubernetes with zero downtime
- Mentored 8 engineers, 3 promoted to senior
- Introduced contract testing that reduced production incidents by 35%
2018 – 2021
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Senior Engineer, Contoso Payments
- Built a ledger service processing 2M transactions per day
- Reduced p99 latency from 900ms to 180ms through query and cache redesign
- Owned PCI-DSS audit remediation across five teams
2015 – 2018
Munich, Germany
Software Engineer, Fabrikam Retail
- Developed the checkout API used by 1.2M monthly customers
- Automated release pipeline, shrinking deploys from 2 hours to 12 minutes
- Partnered with design to ship a mobile-first storefront
2013 – 2015
Hamburg, Germany
Junior Developer, Adventure Works
- Maintained inventory tooling in Java and PostgreSQL
- Wrote the first automated test suite, reaching 70% coverage
Education
2011 – 2013
Munich, Germany
MSc Computer Science, Technical University of Munich
- Thesis on distributed consensus protocols
2008 – 2011
Hamburg, Germany
BSc Computer Science, University of Hamburg
Skills
- TypeScript
- Kotlin
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- System design
- Mentoring
Languages
- GermanNative
- EnglishFluent
- DutchIntermediate
Certificates
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Amazon Web Services (2022)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CNCF (2021)
Awards
- Engineering Excellence Award, Northwind Logistics (2023)
Accent
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