Resume
Full-stack developer with 5+ years of experience
Alex Morgan
Full-Stack Developer & Creative Technologist
Passionate and driven developer seeking opportunities to leverage extensive experience in frontend and backend engineering. My goal is to contribute to innovative products that push the boundaries of what's possible on the web — with a relentless focus on performance, accessibility, and design quality.
Work Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
Lead frontend engineer on the Vercel Dashboard team. Responsible for performance, design system evolution, and mentoring a team of 4 engineers across multiple time zones.
- Reduced initial load time of the deployment dashboard by 42% through code splitting, selective hydration, and caching strategies
- Led the migration from a legacy CSS-in-JS solution to a modern design token system, adopted across 3 product teams
- Designed and built a real-time log streaming interface handling 10k+ events/second without UI jank
- Established the team's accessibility standard, achieving WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across all new features
Full-Stack Developer
Early-stage engineer at Linear, building the core product experience for one of the fastest-growing developer tools of 2021–2023. Worked across the full stack on features touching 100k+ daily active users.
- Built the initial version of Linear's keyboard command palette — now one of the product's most-loved features
- Engineered the drag-and-drop issue prioritization system, reducing P99 interaction latency to under 16ms
- Contributed to the open-source
@linear/sdkTypeScript client library with 2.4k+ GitHub stars - Collaborated closely with design to implement pixel-perfect UI at scale across web and desktop Electron apps
Education
UC Berkeley — B.S. Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science. Graduated with honors. Focused on human-computer interaction, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- GPA: 3.8 / 4.0, Dean's List 6 semesters
- Senior thesis: "Reducing Cognitive Load in Complex Data Dashboards" — advised by Prof. Marti Hearst
- Teaching assistant for CS 61B (Data Structures) for two semesters
- Co-founded the Berkeley Web Development Club, growing membership to 200+ students