Alex MorganCareer Record

Alex Morgan

Role
Platform engineer
Level
Senior, 8 years
Domain
Reliability and release safety

Reliability work that makes other teams faster.

I build the systems and operating practices that let product teams ship safely. The record below connects each claim to work I can explain.

Signature stories

Story 1, Atlas release

Protected the rollback gate

During the Atlas release, retry errors rose from 0.4% to 2.1%.

My part

the call to pause the rollout and the checklist that came out of it

  • Paused the Atlas rollout and coordinated rollback.

Team result

Paused the rollout; created a new release checklist.

The checklist became the release gate the team uses today.

Story 2, Reliability rollout

Made release ownership explicit

Deployments regularly paused while teams worked out who could approve a rollback.

My part

  • Defined release-owner and rollback-owner responsibilities
  • Added the decision points to the release checklist

Team result

Two teams adopted the same operating model for every release.

Story 3, Developer onboarding rebuild

Reduced a new engineer's first deploy from nine days to three

The onboarding path depended on undocumented setup steps and individual help.

My part

  • Turned setup into a reproducible development environment
  • Paired the guide with a first-deploy checklist

Team result

The next four engineers deployed independently in three days or less.

Projects

Alex paused the Atlas rollout after retry errors rose, coordinated rollback, and documented the next release gate.

During the Atlas release, retry errors rose from 0.4% to 2.1%.

Scope0.4% → 2.1% retry-error signal

Owned the call to pause the rollout and the checklist that came out of it.

The rollback decision and release checklist

Skills

Notes

Teams understood the new workflow but avoided it because each run added several minutes.

That is the whole record Alex has published.