Alex Morgan
Full-Stack Engineer · Austin, TX · [email protected]
Full-stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building consumer and enterprise web products. I specialize in React and TypeScript frontends, with strong backend chops in Node.js and PostgreSQL. I care deeply about performance, accessibility, and the craft of good UI. Currently freelancing and open to full-time opportunities with teams building things that matter.
Work Experience
Meridian Labs - Austin, TX (Remote)
Led frontend architecture for a B2B SaaS analytics platform serving 500+ enterprise clients. Drove the migration from a monolithic React codebase to a modular micro-frontend system, reducing bundle sizes by 40% and cutting first-load time in half.
Key Responsibilities
- Architected and implemented a component design system used across 6 product teams, reducing UI inconsistencies and accelerating new feature delivery.
- Led technical interviews and mentored 3 junior engineers, establishing code review standards adopted across the department.
- Collaborated with product and data science teams to build interactive data visualization dashboards using D3.js and Recharts.
- Drove adoption of TypeScript strict mode across the codebase, reducing runtime errors by an estimated 30%.
Notable Projects
Analytics Dashboard Redesign — Owned end-to-end frontend development for a complete overhaul of the core product dashboard. The redesign improved user task completion rates by 22% according to A/B testing.
Design System Launch — Built and shipped an internal component library (60+ components) with full Storybook documentation, reducing designer-developer handoff time significantly.
Wavefront Digital - San Francisco, CA
Built and maintained full-stack features for a consumer fintech product with over 1 million active users. Worked across the React/Next.js frontend and Node.js/PostgreSQL backend in a fast-paced, cross-functional team of 12.
Key Responsibilities
- Developed core product features including bill management, transaction categorization, and budgeting tools used by millions of users daily.
- Built and maintained RESTful APIs serving 300+ requests per second, with zero-downtime deployments via blue-green deployment on AWS.
- Integrated third-party financial data APIs (Plaid, Stripe) and wrote extensive test coverage using Jest and Cypress.
- Participated in on-call rotations and improved incident response procedures, reducing MTTR from 45 minutes to under 10.
Notable Projects
Budget Insights Feature — Sole frontend engineer on a new budget forecasting module. Shipped MVP in 6 weeks; the feature became one of the top 3 most-used in the app within its first quarter.
API Performance Overhaul — Identified and resolved N+1 query issues in the transaction listing endpoint, reducing average response time from 800ms to under 80ms.
Education
B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Creative Writing — GPA 3.7 / 4.0
Coursework Highlights
- Data Structures & Algorithms — Deep dive into complexity analysis, trees, graphs, and dynamic programming.
- Operating Systems — Concurrency, memory management, and systems programming in C.
- Human-Computer Interaction — User research methods, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Creative Nonfiction Writing — Personal essay and narrative craft; sparked a lifelong love of writing.
Activities & Honors
- Dean's List, 5 of 8 semesters
- Co-founded the university's first web development club; grew membership to 120+ students
- Undergraduate research assistant in the HCI Lab, contributing to a published paper on mobile UI accessibility