Alex Morgan
Backend and cloud engineer
[email protected] | +49 30 0000 0000 | github.com/example | linkedin.com/in/example | Berlin, Germany
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.
Professional Experience
Northwind Labs — Senior Software Engineer
Mar 2021 – Present
Berlin
Fintech scale-up
- ◦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.
Contoso Systems — Software Engineer
Jun 2017 – Feb 2021
Hamburg
B2B software
- ◦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
Technical Skills
Backend: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL
Frontend: TypeScript, React
Data & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kafka, Terraform
Testing: JUnit, Testcontainers
Languages & Certificates
Languages: English (Fluent), German (Professional)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect2022