Alex Morgan
[email protected] | +49 30 0000 0000 | github.com/example | linkedin.com/in/example
Professional Summary
Backend engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, well-tested services. Led a team of five, cut cloud costs by 30% and shipped a payments platform used by 2 million customers.
Skills
Backend: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL
Frontend: TypeScript, React
Data & Infra: AWS, Docker, Kafka, Terraform
Testing: JUnit, Testcontainers
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Northwind Labs · Fintech scale-up | Mar 2021 – Present | Berlin
Technologies: Java, Kafka, AWS
- • Designed an event-driven payments pipeline handling 5,000 requests per second with 99.99% uptime.
- • Reduced infrastructure cost by 30% by right-sizing services and introducing autoscaling.
- • Mentored four engineers; two were promoted within a year.
Software Engineer
Contoso Systems · B2B software | Jun 2017 – Feb 2021 | Hamburg
Technologies: Spring, PostgreSQL
- • Built the REST API behind a customer portal used by 40,000 businesses.
- • Raised test coverage from 38% to 85% and halved the number of production incidents.
Education
Technical University of Berlin — MSc Computer Science(2015 – 2017)
Languages & Certificates
Languages: English (Fluent), German (Professional)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — 2022