San Francisco, CA (Open to Remote) · alex.morgan@email.com · linkedin.com/in/alexmorgan
Professional Summary
Senior software engineer specializing in distributed systems and large-scale backend services, building highly scalable infrastructure on GCP.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Block
March 2021 – Present
- •Designed distributed systems in Go handling 5M+ requests/day over a gRPC service mesh.
- •Scaled Kubernetes clusters across regions, reaching 99.99% uptime.
- •Led cloud cost optimization on GCP, cutting spend 32% via autoscaling and caching.
Software Engineer · Stripe
June 2019 – February 2021
- •Built Go microservices for payments designed for horizontal scalability.
- •Migrated a monolith to Kubernetes, improving deploy frequency 4x.
Software Engineer · DoorDash
August 2017 – May 2019
- •Developed gRPC APIs powering real-time logistics at scale.
- •Improved scalability to absorb 10x peak-traffic surges.
Skills
GoKubernetesgRPCDistributed SystemsGCPScalabilityMicroservices
Education
B.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley · 2017