Alex Morse

Full-stack engineer.
25 years in.

Louisville, KY. Open to full-time, consulting, or contract — if the problem is interesting, reach out.

Skills
TypeScript Python React AWS Kubernetes PostgreSQL LLM orchestration RAG Agentic pipelines Go JavaScript Svelte Terraform Docker Kafka Redis DynamoDB Elasticsearch PCI-DSS SOC 2 PHP
Career
2014–2025
Cratejoy
Co-Founder & CTO · YC S13
Subscription commerce platform. Owned architecture and roadmap for a decade — first commit through scaling to millions of users across thousands of storefronts.
2011–2013
Zynga
Technical Lead — Bingo & Slots
Stabilized games serving 2M+ concurrent users. Shipped Zynga's first commercial HTML5 game client.
2009–2011
PokerTableRatings
Lead Developer
Distributed analytics platform processing 100M+ daily row insertions. Full-stack from inception.
1998–2009
Early web & contracts
Various
Perl streaming in '98, full e-commerce in 2000, course delivery before LMS was a term. The foundations that make modern tooling feel obvious.