Alex Morse · Louisville, KY · YC Alum

Full-stack
engineer.

25+ years building for the web. Most recently co-founded Cratejoy (YC S13) and ran engineering for a decade. Open to full-time, consulting, or contract — if the problem is interesting, just reach out.

Skills
Languages
TypeScript Python JavaScript Go PHP
Frontend
React Svelte HTML5 / CSS
Infrastructure
AWS Kubernetes Terraform Docker Lambda CI/CD
Data
PostgreSQL Kafka Redis DynamoDB MongoDB Elasticsearch
AI / LLM
LLM orchestration RAG n8n Agentic pipelines
Compliance
PCI-DSS GDPR / CCPA SOC 2 OAuth / SAML
Experience
2014 – 2025
Austin / Remote
Co-Founder & CTO
Cratejoy, Inc. YC S13
Subscription commerce platform. Owned end-to-end architecture and technical roadmap for over a decade — from first commit through scaling to millions of users across thousands of storefronts.
Built core platform systems: auth, merchant onboarding, a full React web designer app, and multi-tenant infrastructure on AWS with Kubernetes.
Designed event-driven data pipelines using Kafka, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB — ETL, deduplication, and reconciliation across 20+ third-party integrations.
Built custom Kubernetes controllers in Go to automate production workload management across on-demand and spot instances via IaC pipelines.
Architected an LLM orchestration pipeline (n8n) that autonomously resolved the vast majority of weekly support tickets — not routing, actually solving.
Led PCI-DSS and GDPR/CCPA compliance end-to-end; contributed to SOC 2 audit prep. No dedicated compliance team.
2011 – 2013
San Francisco
Technical Lead — Bingo & Slots
Zynga
Stabilized and shipped games serving 2M+ concurrent users. Recruited the team that delivered Zynga's first commercial HTML5 game client — working prototype in two weeks.
2009 – 2011
Remote
Lead Developer
PokerTableRatings.com
Joined at inception. Architected a distributed analytics platform processing 100M+ daily row insertions. Full-stack ownership: schema, performance tuning, caching strategy, front-end.
1998 – 2009
Early web & contracts
Various
Perl-based streaming in '98, a full e-commerce platform in 2000, and contract work including a course delivery system before LMS was a common acronym. The foundations that make modern tooling feel intuitive.
Get in touch

Full-time, consulting, or contract — open to all of it. If you've got something interesting, just reach out directly.

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