Alex Morgan
Senior Software Engineer
Austin, TXalex.morgan@email.com(512) 555-0142github.com/alexmorgan
88%
Cut settlement p99 latency by 88%, from 1.8s to 220ms.
$400K
Ended duplicate payouts, saving $400K a year in refunds.
82%
Brought monthly on-call pages down by 82%.
Summary
Backend engineer with seven years building payment and data services in Go and Python. Known for making slow systems fast, on-call quiet and new engineers productive in their first week.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Brightpath PaymentsMar 2021 - Present
Rebuilt the settlement service in Go, cutting p99 latency from 1.8s to 220ms for 3M daily payments.
Led the move from cron jobs to Kafka streams, removing 40 nightly batch failures a month.
Designed idempotent retry handling that ended duplicate payouts, saving $400K a year in refunds.
Mentored four engineers; two were promoted to senior within eighteen months.
Software Engineer · LoomdataJun 2018 - Feb 2021
Built the ingestion API that grew from 2 to 60 customers without a rewrite.
Cut AWS spend by 31% by rightsizing clusters and adding autoscaling.
Wrote the runbooks and alerts that brought monthly pages down from 45 to 8.
Software Engineering Intern · Tessellate LabsMay 2017 - Aug 2017
Shipped a Python tool that validated customer CSV imports, used on every onboarding since.
Projects
pgwatch-lite: open-source Postgres query monitor, 1,400 GitHub stars.
Conference talk: "Exactly-once is a lie" at GopherCon Europe 2024.
Skills
GoPythonPostgreSQLKafkaRedisAWSKubernetesTerraformgRPCObservabilitySystem design
Education
BS Computer Science · University of Texas at Austin
2014 - 2018
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate
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Backend engineer with seven years building payment and data services in Go and Python. Known for making slow systems fast, on-call quiet and new engineers productive in their first week.
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Go · Python · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Redis · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · gRPC · Observability · System design
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Senior Software Engineer, Brightpath PaymentsMar 2021 - Present•Rebuilt the settlement service in Go, cutting p99 latency from 1.8s to 220ms for 3M daily payments.•Led the move from cron jobs to Kafka streams, removing 40 nightly batch failures a month.•Designed idempotent retry handling that ended duplicate payouts, saving $400K a year in refunds.•Mentored four engineers; two were promoted to senior within eighteen months.Software Engineer, LoomdataJun 2018 - Feb 2021•Built the ingestion API that grew from 2 to 60 customers without a rewrite.•Cut AWS spend by 31% by rightsizing clusters and adding autoscaling.•Wrote the runbooks and alerts that brought monthly pages down from 45 to 8.Software Engineering Intern, Tessellate LabsMay 2017 - Aug 2017•Shipped a Python tool that validated customer CSV imports, used on every onboarding since.Education
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•pgwatch-lite: open-source Postgres query monitor, 1,400 GitHub stars.•Conference talk: "Exactly-once is a lie" at GopherCon Europe 2024.Certifications
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Summary
Backend engineer with seven years building payment and data services in Go and Python. Known for making slow systems fast, on-call quiet and new engineers productive in their first week.
Skills
Go · Python · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Redis · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · gRPC · Observability · System design
Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Brightpath PaymentsMar 2021 - Present•Rebuilt the settlement service in Go, cutting p99 latency from 1.8s to 220ms for 3M daily payments.•Led the move from cron jobs to Kafka streams, removing 40 nightly batch failures a month.•Designed idempotent retry handling that ended duplicate payouts, saving $400K a year in refunds.•Mentored four engineers; two were promoted to senior within eighteen months.Software Engineer, LoomdataJun 2018 - Feb 2021•Built the ingestion API that grew from 2 to 60 customers without a rewrite.•Cut AWS spend by 31% by rightsizing clusters and adding autoscaling.•Wrote the runbooks and alerts that brought monthly pages down from 45 to 8.Software Engineering Intern, Tessellate LabsMay 2017 - Aug 2017•Shipped a Python tool that validated customer CSV imports, used on every onboarding since.Education
BS Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin2014 - 2018Projects
•pgwatch-lite: open-source Postgres query monitor, 1,400 GitHub stars.•Conference talk: "Exactly-once is a lie" at GopherCon Europe 2024.Certifications
•AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate