Lacy Morrow

Agentic & web engineer + open-source developer + hardware hacker

Summary

Over 20 years as a Web Developer building accessible, well-architected sites and apps. Creator of pixel-perfect, mobile-first development with graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. EXPERTISE: Agentic engineer + Full-stack developer + Hardware Engineer; Agency owner; Tech/Development lead; Product/Project manager; DevOps; IT consultant; Software architect; Hiring manager; SCRUM master I especially enjoy TypeScript, React, NextJS, and Electron/Tauri QUALITIES: Tech leader. Passionate about quality. Communicative and accessible; Reliable, confident, and eager to build. A highly motivated problem-solver.

Experience

Duke Energy

Jun 2025Apr 2026

Agentic Engineer + Senior Developer · Remote

Created internal GPT setup for company use. Contract - Refactored a weather-forecasting dashboard to deploy to AWS and migrated authentication to Azure A/D (Active Directory) from user/password. Python, React, Docker, AWS, Azure, Regex, Cron

Credit Karma

Jan 2025Jan 2025

Full-Stack Next.js Developer · Remote

Contract - Created the entire User Testing dashboard for Credit Karma for the User Management team. Converted pages router to App router. Built features for creating test/production users across the web and mobile experience. Included search and metrics coordinated across multiple system APIs. TypeScript, NextJS, React, Tachyons, React Native

Novant Health / Red Ventures

Jun 2024Dec 2024

Full-Stack Next.js Developer · Remote

Contract - Build and maintained Physician Finder, Matcher, and landing pages sites for Novant to locate doctors. Legacy code was sunsetted and new, modern websites were built using TypeScript, NextJS, and Vue, tooled with Datadog/Netlify.

OptumRX Health / Red Ventures

Jan 2024Dec 2024

Senior React Developer + DevOps Engineer · Remote

Contract - Created E-commerce site for RVO Health. Built the market, inventory, authentication, and ordering systems, complete with automation pipelines. TypeScript, NextJS, React, Contentful, Plytix, Stripe, Algolia

Swell Energy

Aug 2023Feb 2024

Lead Web Developer - Grid Services · Remote

Contract - Developed charts, dashboards, control panels to manage solar and power utilities in southern California and Hawaii. Authentication, API, UI, CRUD. TypeScript, NextJS, React, Python, Django, Docker, PostgreSQL

Lumenai (Startup)

Mar 2023Jul 2023

Senior Web Engineer - Browser Extension · Remote

Contract Full-Stack Web Developer - Helped create foundational internal apps and build process for a browser extension using RPA automation, React, SASS, Docker. Created dynamic robust UI screens React, Typescript, Jest, automated deployments, and self-built CI/CD.

TekSystems

Jan 2023Jun 2023

React Developer · Remote

Government contract with the VA. Built health medicine tools + calculators to lessen the amount of information patients had to fill out and help physicians get accurate stats about health issues.

Viasat

Jun 2022Jan 2023

Senior React Developer - In-Flight Entertainment · Remote

Contract - Managed in-flight entertainment portals for dozens of airlines. On-call. In charge of workflow management and client-stakeholder relations. Demoed product updates to stakeholders. React, TypeScript, NextJS, Jenkins, AWS, MySQL

Twilio Inc.

Nov 2017Nov 2021

Senior Web Engineer · San Francisco, CA

In charge of twilio.com and all sub-sites. Managed and lead multiple projects, created a React design system, built the SIGNAL HackPack v4 badge. Launched WhatsApp, Studio, Flex, products. Localization/Regionalization. Implemented testing, migrated blog and legal to a CMS. TypeScript, React, Docker, Python, Django, Wagtail, PHP, WordPress, i18n.

Flymore (Startup)

Jun 2016Dec 2017

Co-Founder / Director of Engineering · Charlotte, NC

Hosted a camp for kids to build FPV drones with a focus on teaching kids about basic software & electronics. Hosted first drone race in Charlotte, NC. Developed software to livestream 4 analog FPV feeds. OpenStack, Apache, Linux, ReactJS, GraphQL, WordPress, PHP

Long Game

Mar 2016Nov 2016

Web/React Native Developer · San Francisco, CA

Contract - Helped create a startup's initial mobile app: React web-app and second-iteration React Native app for IOS and Android; Saw first launch to 100+ beta users. AWS, NodeJS, Docker, SequelizeJS, React Native

Yahoo

Jan 2016Mar 2016

React A11y Engineer - Accessibility Team · Palo Alto, CA

Contract - Built several React components on a Yahoo stack for the Search and Branded Marketing teams using Tumblr as a data serve API. OpenStack, Apache, Linux, NodeJS, ReactJS, Electron, NW.js, Selenium.

10up

Jun 2014Sep 2015

Senior Web Engineer - Electron Team · San Francisco, CA

Took on every role and responsibility of designing, creating, implementing, deploying, and maintaining a plethora of websites for numerous clients including: Microsoft, Uber, AARP, and Beasley Media. Docker, Electron, PHP, WordPress, SASS, Webpack, AWS, Google Analytics

Invitae

Jun 2014Sep 2015

Software Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Senior Full-Stack Web Developer - Created and maintained HIPAA-compliant back office software, data science tools, and analytics software as well as the public-facing invitae.com. Python, PHP, MySQL, Django, Flask, Angular, Backbone, React, WordPress, ElasticSearch, NightwatchJS, Docker, Jenkins, AWS

Appalachian State University

Sep 2010May 2014

Full-Stack Web Developer · Boone, NC

Built internal websites and scheduling software. Created custom CMS framework with PHP, Postgres used by all campus web pages. PHP, Python, Postgres, MySQL, PHPWebsite, PHPUnit, Git, Apache, Linux

Red Ventures

Mar 2010Aug 2010

Web Design Intern · Rock Hill, SC

Front-End Web Developer - Created 10+ branded advertising websites and unique user interactions. PHP, MySQL, Linux

Skills

Frontend (Expert)

TypeScript / JavaScript · React / NextJS · Svelte · Astro · Vue · HTML / JSX / MDX · SCSS / CSS / Tailwind / Styled Components · React Native / Flutter

Backend (Expert)

Node · Python · PHP · Rust · Swift · Go · SQL / PostgreSQL / MongoDB · Redis · Serverless

DevOps (Senior)

Docker · AWS · G Cloud · Vercel · Netlify · CI/CD · Testing

Platform (Expert)

Electron · Tauri · React Native · Flutter

AI Engineer (Evolving)

LLMs · Neural-networks · Tensorflow · Vector Databases · Prompt Engineering

Projects

Lacy Shell

AI Coding Agent for Your Terminal. Integrate Codex, Claude Code, or your favorite AI coding CLI into your existing shell.

Juno AI

Voice-Operate Your Computer. Rust + Tauri Desktop app built on OpenAI Whisper and Anthropic Computer-use.

Shipkit

Next.js Accelerator. Full-featured Next.js Starter and toolkit for building, launching, and monetizing MVPs.

CrossOver

CrossHair Overlay. Electron cross-platform custom crosshairs for PC video games. Featured in the Windows app store and Snapcraft store.

Twilio Hackpack v4

Twilio's Open Source Hardware Badge, built for SIGNAL Conference 2018. Joystick, lights, 7 buttons, a touchscreen, on a Raspberry Pi Zero.

Education

Appalachian State University

Dec 2009Dec 2014

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

References

Lacy is an extremely talented engineer with a very broad range of skills and experience. From being a thought leader in the front-end community via backbonetutorials.com and cdnjs.com, to designing and implementing the API for cdnjs.com, working with Lacy has been fantastic learning experience. Lacy is truly a full stack developer, and his work output is incredible. If there is any opportunity to work with Lacy, I take it. He is the definition of an A player.

Ryan Kirkram, Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo