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.
The Scholar's Codex
Peer-reviewed implementations, computational laboratory apparatus, and verified production systems.
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.
Technical Skills
Core competencies across frontend, backend, data, and cloud infrastructure.
Frontend & 3D Web
[8]Backend & Systems
[9]Cloud & DevOps
[7]Language
[2]Framework
[5]Database
[2]Devops
[1]Work Experience
A chronological record of roles, responsibilities, and the work that came out of them.
- Mar 2023 — Present
Staff Software Engineer
VercelSan Francisco, CA (Remote)
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.
- Feb 2021 — Feb 2023
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
StripeSeattle, WA
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%.
- Jun 2019 — Jan 2021
Distributed Systems Engineer
CloudflareSan Francisco, CA
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.
Education & Qualifications
Stanford University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Systems & HCI)
Coursework: Distributed Systems, Advanced Computer Graphics, Database Systems, Computer Networking.
Honors & Awards
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.
Engineering Activity
Code contributions and problem solving over time.
Let's collaborate
Open to engineering roles, architecture consultations, and meaningful software collaborations.
alex.morgan.builder@gmail.com
San Francisco, CA (Remote)