Selected work

Products and systems I have built as a founder, CTO, and senior engineer.

Arrafund

Founding Engineer / CTO
June 2024 – Present

Founded and built a global, multi-currency creator monetization platform using Rails 8, PostgreSQL, Redis, Turbo/Stimulus, and Tailwind. Owned architecture, backend, frontend, infrastructure, security, payments, analytics, and integrations.

  • Built and secured approval for a Plaid integration to ingest transaction data and identify eligible purchases.
  • Implemented a multi-currency Wise payment integration with OAuth, webhooks, encrypted credential storage, idempotent processing, and payment workflows.
  • Built and deployed an approved Shopify application using Next.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL for affiliate attribution, order lifecycle events, and real-time commission tracking.

HomeBrand

Founding Engineer / CTO
March 2026 – July 2026

Built and deployed an AI-native home-operations platform using Rails 8, PostgreSQL, Redis/Sidekiq, Active Storage/S3, Turbo/Stimulus, extraction and answering, and OpenAI transcription.

  • Built multimodal ingestion for OCR, document classification, structured extraction, receipts, manuals, warranties, policies, audio/video transcription, and evidence indexing.
  • Created an evidence-grounded AI assistant retrieving from uploaded documents, property records, materials, maintenance logs, contractors, and utilities.
  • Designed property-scoped authorization and multi-tenant workflows including roles, invitations, document access, maintenance records, and administrative controls.

EasyPost

Senior Software Engineer
October 2019 – November 2023

Led architecture for mission-critical billing and transaction systems supporting a logistics platform handling approximately $8B in shipping volume across UPS, FedEx, DHL, and other carriers.

  • Owned and extended the transaction and delta-billing platform, including reusable carrier-invoice processing for continuously changing invoices.
  • Developed high-throughput services, optimized MySQL database partitions, and migrated 15 services from a Rails monolith to Python/Flask microservices.
  • Designed and launched a QR-code endpoint generating 100K UPS return labels per day and led billing for in-house UPS accounts handling approximately $15M in annual shipping volume.

BrightGo

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
April 2025 – January 2026

Architected a hybrid ERP accounting and operations platform integrating legacy ERP data with Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL, React and Chakra UI, and a third-party ledger API for companies managing 500+ cleaners and $20M+ in annual revenue.

  • Designed job-costed payroll with per-job labor tracking, real-time cost attribution, and a payroll-to-ledger pipeline.
  • Increased financial-import throughput approximately 10× through ledger transaction batching while preserving idempotency, unique external IDs, and double-entry validation.
  • Built centralized authorization, server-side data-grid operations, background-job orchestration, and complex React Native schedule editing.

Cellular Country

Founder, Owner & CTO
July 2005 – December 2018

Founded and scaled a $5M/year e-commerce business and built the entire software platform end-to-end, including inventory, fulfillment, accounting, CRM, pricing, marketplace integrations, internal tools, and production operations.

  • Automated inventory, purchasing, pricing, warehouse operations, and reverse logistics, including workflows processing approximately 100 smartphones per day.
  • Built dynamic pricing, barcode/IMEI tracking, fraud detection, shipping, pick/pack, auction bidding, and real-time marketplace inventory synchronization.
  • Operated bare-metal Linux infrastructure at 99.9% uptime and managed a 10-person operations team while leading engineers and designers.

Other projects

finance.dougmorgen.com

A full-stack TypeScript application with account-scoped financial records, a tax-preparer dashboard, PostgreSQL metadata, and private S3-compatible document delivery.

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node.dougmorgen.com

A Bun/Effect/React/PostgreSQL application with typed APIs, OAuth, rate limiting, Docker/Kamal deployment, and automated database migrations.

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dougmorgen.com

This Rails site: structured content, SEO and social metadata, protected inquiry intake, automated email, and authenticated lead review.

abrahamlena.com

A filmmaker portfolio and video studio for AI-assisted edit planning, audio cleanup, multilingual captions, generated music, voice narration, Runway effects, and FFmpeg rendering.

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