Rex Morgan
Senior Manager, Software Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolRex Morgan is a seasoned software leader with 13+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations, now serving as Senior Manager of Software Development at AWS after leading Builder Tools and director-level teams at Inmar. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship—authoring the popular Handlebars.Net template engine and contributing meaningful feature and reliability improvements—with a strong focus on architecture, operational excellence, and hiring top engineering talent. Rex has a track record across enterprise and cloud environments (Amazon, Qorvo, Volvo, Wells Fargo) of turning customer needs into strategically valuable, high-quality systems. Known for coaching engineering managers and elevating team delivery, he balances people leadership with deep technical contributions and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. An unconventional background in film from SCAD hints at a creative perspective he brings to technical problem solving and developer tooling.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Film, Film at Savannah College of Art and Design
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Github contributions (5)
Handlebars-Net/Handlebars.Net
May 2014 - Dec 2021
A real .NET Handlebars engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 229 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rex primarily contributed to enhancing the .NET Handlebars engine, focusing on adding new features and improving existing functionality. Their work included implementing support for features like `@index`, `@first`, and `@last` within iterators, directly modifying core code and adding unit tests. The user also refactored code, improved parameter naming, and addressed bug fixes related to truthy/falsy logic. These changes show a focus on expanding and refining the template engine's capabilities.
template-enginedotnethandlebars-templatesmustachec-sharp
rexm/ko.promise
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year
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