Alex Morgan

Senior frontend engineer focused on performance, design systems, and accessible UI. Currently at Notion, previously Squarespace and Wayfair.

Experience

Jan 2023 — Present

Senior Frontend Engineer

Notion

  • Own the editor performance workstream for a React/TypeScript app used by 30M+ users. Led the migration to a virtualized block renderer that cut initial load time by 40%. Mentor two mid-level engineers and run weekly frontend architecture reviews.

Jun 2020 — Dec 2022

Frontend Engineer

Squarespace

  • Built and shipped the site-wide component library adopted across 12 product squads, reducing duplicate UI code by ~60%. Partnered with design on a full accessibility pass that brought core flows to WCAG 2.1 AA. Owned the checkout funnel redesign, improving conversion by 8%.

Aug 2018 — May 2020

Software Engineer

Wayfair

  • Developed customer-facing features on the product listing team using React and Node.js. Built an internal A/B testing dashboard adopted by 5 teams. Reduced page load time on the PDP by 25% through code-splitting and image pipeline improvements.

Projects

Mar 2022 — Present

Component Library

Creator & Maintainer

Open-source React + TypeScript design system with Storybook docs, used as a starter kit by ~400 GitHub stars worth of developers.
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Storybook
  • Radix UI

Jun 2021 — Jan 2022

DevMetrics

Solo Developer

Side project dashboard that tracks personal coding activity across GitHub, Linear, and calendar data, visualized with weekly trends.
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Recharts

Education

Sep 2013 — May 2017

University of Michigan

B.S. · Computer Science

Certifications

Apr 2023 — Apr 2026

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

Credential ID: AWS-SAA-2023-04891

Nov 2021No expiration

Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate

Meta (Coursera)

Credential ID: META-FE-88213

Skills

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • Tailwind CSS
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Figma
  • Jest
  • CI/CD
  • Redux
  • REST APIs
  • Webpack
  • Accessibility (WCAG)