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
Staff Engineer2021/04 – Present
Northwind LogisticsBerlin, Germany
- 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%
Senior Engineer2018/02 – 2021/03
Contoso PaymentsAmsterdam, Netherlands
- 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
Software Engineer2015/09 – 2018/01
Fabrikam RetailMunich, Germany
- 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
Junior Developer2013/07 – 2015/08
Adventure WorksHamburg, Germany
- Maintained inventory tooling in Java and PostgreSQL
- Wrote the first automated test suite, reaching 70% coverage
Education
MSc Computer Science2011 – 2013
Technical University of MunichMunich, Germany
- Thesis on distributed consensus protocols
BSc Computer Science2008 – 2011
University of HamburgHamburg, Germany
Skills
- TypeScript
- Kotlin
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- System design
- Mentoring
Languages
- German (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- Dutch (Intermediate)
Certificates
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Amazon Web Services (2022/06)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CNCF (2021/11)
Awards
- Engineering Excellence Award, Northwind Logistics (2023)
Classic
Included free