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Alex Morgan
Backend and cloud engineer
Profile
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
JavaKotlinSpring BootPostgreSQLTypeScriptReactAWSDockerKafkaTerraformJUnitTestcontainers
Employment History
Senior Software Engineer
Northwind Labs · Mar 2021 – Present · Berlin
- 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 · Jun 2017 – Feb 2021 · Hamburg
- 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
MSc Computer Science
Technical University of Berlin · 2015 – 2017
Certificates
AWS Certified Solutions Architect2022
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