Hello, I'm
Alex Morgan
Crafting ultra-performant edge systems, distributed cloud backends, and interactive WebGL experiences. Dedicated to high architectural ergonomics, resilient software design, and delightful developer tooling.
Craft at the intersection of code and design.
Crafting ultra-performant edge systems, distributed cloud backends, and interactive WebGL experiences. Dedicated to high architectural ergonomics, resilient software design, and delightful developer tooling.
- Building Staff Software Engineer at Vercel
- Architecting performant, high-scale digital interfaces
- Exploring real-time 3D web environments and micro-interactions
A toolkit built for shipping, not for showing off.
A pragmatic toolkit built over years of shipping production software — chosen for reliability, not novelty.
Frontend Development
Interfaces that stay fast under real-world content and traffic.
Backend & APIs
Reliable service layers with clear contracts and observability.
AI & Modern Architecture
Practical, scalable systems wired into resilient products.
Tools & Infrastructure
The pipeline that carries a change from laptop to production safely.
Selected work, and the reasoning behind it.
Production applications and systems built with modern architecture and craft.
HyperScale Edge Mesh
High-throughput edge routing mesh built with Rust and WebAssembly, delivering sub-5ms request latency and distributed cache invalidation across 300+ edge nodes.
- Engineered zero-cold-start WebAssembly workers processing 200,000 requests per second.
- Cut cross-region failover duration from 8.4 seconds to 120ms with distributed gossip consensus.
- Adopted by 40+ engineering teams in production with zero downtime over 18 months.
Aetheria Spatial UI
Next-generation 3D spatial design system and canvas rendering engine powered by Three.js and custom GLSL shaders, engineered for responsive web experiences.
- Achieved sustained 60 FPS across desktop and mobile devices via GPU instancing and vertex shader LOD.
- Integrated physics-based spring animations with fluid glassmorphism refractions.
- Featured on Product Hunt Top 5 Developer Products of the week with 1,200+ upvotes.
Chronos Telemetry Engine
Real-time event streaming and observability dashboard analyzing 1M+ live telemetry events per second with sub-second aggregate query latency.
- Built a vectorized ClickHouse ingest pipeline processing over 5TB of telemetry daily.
- Implemented automated anomaly detection alerting on p99 degradation in real time.
- Reduced telemetry cloud infrastructure spend by 54% through adaptive column compression.
NeuralFlow Studio
Local-first collaborative workbench for automated LLM prompt engineering, evaluation benchmarks, and multi-agent workflow orchestration.
- Designed CRDT synchronization allowing zero-conflict multiplayer canvas collaboration.
- Integrated local SQLite vector index with cosine similarity search running client-side.
- Supports 12+ model providers with automatic token budget optimization.
Consistent engineering, day after day.
Real-time activity logs, contribution patterns, and problem-solving metrics across platforms.
7 years of building things that shipped.
Staff Software Engineer
Leading architectural initiatives across edge compute runtime and global application distribution pipelines.
- Architected edge middleware primitives reducing global p99 response latency by 38%.
- Collaborated with open-source ecosystem partners on zero-downtime static generation.
- Mentored 8 senior engineers and authored RFCs for core framework streaming capabilities.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Built high-reliability international payment surfaces and developer integration SDKs.
- Shipped multi-currency checkout flow supporting 135+ payment methods worldwide.
- Maintained 99.999% availability during peak Black Friday transaction spikes.
- Automated integration testing harness improving pull-request merge confidence by 40%.
Distributed Systems Engineer
Developed distributed metrics ingestion pipelines and edge observability tooling.
- Scaled telemetry ingestion from 300k to 1.5M events/sec across global PoPs.
- Reduced edge memory footprints by 25% through optimized zero-allocation data serialization.
Academic foundation, sharpened by practice.
The rigorous theoretical grounding that underpins high-performance software engineering.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Systems & HCI)
Coursework: Distributed Systems, Advanced Computer Graphics, Database Systems, Computer Networking.
- Lead Developer – Stanford ACM Student Chapter
- Published research on low-latency memory caching for multicore architectures
Recognition for shipping at the edge.
Industry honors, hackathon victories, and verified technical certifications.
1st Place Winner – Global Open Source Hackathon 2024
Open Source Collective
Awarded top honor among 1,200 international developer teams for decentralized edge mesh.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Validated expertise in complex distributed cloud systems and resilient infrastructure.
GitHub Global Top 1% Contributor
GitHub
Recognized for consistent high-impact contributions to web ecosystem open source projects.
Let's build something worth scrolling.
I am currently taking on a small number of freelance projects and full-time roles. If you have an idea that needs real craft — tell me about it.