Technical Resume

Technical Summary

Software engineer and founder with 20+ years building production software: full-stack applications, APIs, integrations, and increasingly AI-assisted systems built around LLM integrations, agents, and automation inside real businesses. I build for companies I operate (marketplaces, payments, hospitality technology) and consult selectively through DBL Systems. The point of this page isn't a keyword list. It's that I still ship.

Technical Skills

Core Stack

Ruby on Rails JavaScript / TypeScript Hotwire / Stimulus React PostgreSQL Redis Tailwind CSS

AI & Automation

LLM Integrations AI Agents AI-Assisted Development Workflow Automation Internal Business Systems

Product Domains

Marketplaces Payments (Stripe) Bookings & Reservations Hospitality Technology APIs & Integrations

Infrastructure & Practices

AWS Heroku Docker CI/CD & GitHub Actions REST APIs TDD

Technical Experience

Convene

2025 - Present

Founder & Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Designed and built a marketplace platform for market organizers: vendor applications, bookings, payments, communication, promotion, and reporting in one system
Built on Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, PostgreSQL, and Stripe, with AI-assisted workflows throughout the product and the development process
Product decisions grounded in 13+ years operating the markets the software serves, with 10,000+ vendors and roughly 200 events a year of real-world workflow behind it

Hospitality Systems: Inplace & Marée

2022 - Present

Owner-Operator & Builder

Built and integrated the operating stack for multiple hospitality properties: booking and channel management, payments, guest communication, and automation
Stood up the technology side of an independent restaurant from scratch: POS, reservations, payments, and back-office systems
Automation and AI tooling that lets small teams run multiple properties well

DBL Systems

2002 - Present

Founder & Lead Developer

20+ years of production client work across marketplaces, SaaS, e-commerce, and local business verticals, from solo builds to leading teams of engineers and designers
Selected work: SaaS re-architecture for an online music school; backend, API and admin platform for a municipal beach-access mobile app; performance and background-processing work for subscription platforms
Current consulting focus: AI integration, automation, internal tools, and modernizing existing systems

Projects & Writing

GitHub: Open source contributions and personal projects
Technical Writing: Articles on development, architecture, and building products

Bret Morgan