Lacy Morrow
Agentic & web engineer + open-source developer + hardware hacker
About
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 + GTM/Growth engineer + Hardware Engineer; AI/GenAI integration (LLMs, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, MCP); GTM engineering (product launches, e-commerce funnels, SEO/analytics, marketing automation); 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.
Work Experience
Backend Developer + Agentic Engineer
Contract - Built and migrated a backend Laravel platform powering business publications across 48 U.S. markets. Architected an AI orchestration layer managing 12 autonomous agents that independently picked up and completed engineering tasks. Agent-based workflows with task routing, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop review. Built RAG pipelines grounding agents in platform documentation and code. Developed Claude agent personas and reusable skill sets across multiple services and platforms for the development team. Laravel, PHP, AI/LLM Orchestration, Claude, Autonomous Agents, LangGraph, RAG, MCP
Duke Energy
Remote
June 2025 – April 2026
Agentic Engineer + Senior Developer
Contract - Led internal AI adoption: built an internal GPT/LLM platform for company-wide use with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) over internal documentation, prompt libraries, and Azure OpenAI integration. Refactored a weather-forecasting dashboard to deploy to AWS and migrated authentication to Azure A/D (Active Directory) from user/password. Python, React, LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG, LLMs, Docker, AWS, Azure, Regex, Cron
Credit Karma
Remote
January 2025 – January 2025
Full-Stack Next.js Developer
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
Remote
June 2024 – December 2024
Full-Stack Next.js Developer
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
Remote
January 2024 – December 2024
Senior React Developer + DevOps Engineer
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
Remote
August 2023 – February 2024
Lead Web Developer - Grid Services
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)
Remote
March 2023 – July 2023
Senior Web Engineer - Browser Extension
Contract Full-Stack Web Developer - Helped create foundational internal apps and build process for a browser extension using RPA and LLM-assisted automation, React, SASS, Docker. Created dynamic robust UI screens React, Typescript, Jest, automated deployments, and self-built CI/CD. The company saw a 15% rise in productivity and experienced 35% growth in 6 months.
TekSystems
Remote
January 2023 – June 2023
React Developer
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
Remote
June 2022 – January 2023
Senior React Developer - In-Flight Entertainment
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. Transformed polished designs into reusable components. React, TypeScript, NextJS, Jenkins, AWS, MySQL
Senior Web Engineer
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. Worked emergency on-call. TypeScript, React, Docker, Python, Django, Wagtail, PHP, WordPress, i18n.
LacyMorrow.com
San Francisco Bay Area & Charlotte, NC
December 2006 – January 2025
Senior Developer
Full-stack Web Design & Development
with 20+ years experience designing and building accessible, well-architected websites and web apps for desktop and mobile experiences.
Senior Web Engineer - Electron Team
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
Flymore (Startup)
Charlotte, NC
June 2016 – December 2017
Co-Founder / Director of Engineering
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: qualifier for Drone Nationals. Developed software to livestream 4 analog FPV feeds; Co-founded and created Flymore LLC Web Identity and Academy website. OpenStack; Apache; Linux; ReactJS, GraphQL, Youtube API, WordPress, PHP
Web/React Native Developer
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
React A11y Engineer - Accessibility Team
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.
Software Engineer
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; UX/UI Developer - Developed navigation, modals, and interactions; Made custom WordPress theme; DevOps - Managed database health, configured continuous integration instances, web-hooks, bi-weekly deployments. Created an automated Selenium testing workflow; Tech Interviewer;
Python, PHP, MySQL, Django, Flask, Angular, Backbone, React, WordPress, ElasticSearch, NightwatchJS, Git & Mercurial, Docker, Jenkins, Splunk, Apache, AWS EC2, Linux
Full-Stack Web Developer
Full-Stack Web Developer - Built internal websites and scheduling software. Helped develop back office software. Created custom CMS framework with PHP, Postgres used by all campus web pages; DevOps - Managed database and handled deployments;
PHP, Python, Postgres, MySQL, PHPWebsite, PHPUnit, Git, Apache, Linux
Web Design Intern
Front-End Web Developer - Created 10+ branded advertising websites and unique user interactions; Created promotional sites and emails. Sliced Photoshop files to create HTML email;
PHP, MySQL, Linux
Awards
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January 2020
Github
Arctic Code Vault Contributor
Projects
- Lacy Shell: AI Coding Agent for Your Terminal. Integrate Codex, Claude Code, or your favorite AI coding CLI into your existing shell. Natural language routes through an LLM agent with tool calling and safe command execution.
- Juno AI: Voice-Operate Your Computer. Rust + Tauri Desktop app built on OpenAI Whisper and Anthropic Computer-use. Also functions as an MCP server (npx juno-cua) for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI agents.
- Vibe Rehab: Fix Your Vibe Code. Finish your vibe coded projects and get them launched, deployed, and secured.
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Completely dynamic website that generates entries as they are requested. LLM-powered generative content with retrieval of prior entries for consistency. Mimicking the guide from the famous Douglas Adams novel.
- OpenClaw Trading Skills: AI agent skills for the OpenClaw platform. Built autonomous trading agents in Rust, Go, and Shell for stock/crypto (Alpaca), prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi). Agent-based workflows with scheduled evaluation loops and risk guardrails. Runs a brokerage account and posts trades to Twitter.
- MCP Servers & Tools: Model Context Protocol integrations enabling AI agents to control desktop apps, execute shell commands, and query APIs. Juno CUA MCP server for desktop automation; MCP tool integration in Lash AI coding agent.
- Shipkit: Next.js Accelerator. Full-featured Next.js Starter and toolkit for building, launching, and monetizing MVPs.
- Uibrary: Live Collections of UI Component Libraries. UI libraries (like shadcn) presented in live, dynamic fashion. Available to remix or install.
- React Component Libraries: Open-source component libraries for react. react-ruffle | react-is-online-context | react-github-readme-md
- 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, in a 3D-printed case.
- CrossOver: CrossHair Overlay. Electron Cross-platform custom crosshairs for PC video games. Featured in the Windows app store and Snapcraft store.
- NPM Libraries: Collection of Open-Source NPM Libraries. album-art | movie-art | movie-info | movie-trailer; etc thousands of weekly downloads
- Cinematic: A NodeJS-based desktop app for organizing your digital movie collection in a simple, easy-to-manage way. Sort, filter, search your movies, then check out ratings, trailers, plot, reviews and more before watching. NodeJS + Meteor desktop app
- Casper: A Ghost-like WordPress theme. A gorgeous open-source Wordpress theme, inspired by the default theme of the Ghost blogging platform. Custom PHP WP theme.
- Boone Community Network: A local, community-based social network for the city of Boone, North Carolina. Connect locally and interact with your community; Discover businesses, deals, and people around you; Hear about the latest events and keep your roots local.
- Phase2Productions: Phase2Productions is a video production agency by Emmy Award-winning news anchor Kim Brattain. Phase2Productions' team of Emmy and Telly award-winning professionals can sharpen your image and build your brand.
- XPlay.js: The open source, drop-and-go HTML5 media player. xPlay.js is a powerful tool used to assist in playing multiple media files on a website. Scan an entire directory and generate a playlist, complete with album art, from your audio and video. Playlist is completely customizable via CSS and controlled via JS.
- XSPF Jukebox: Flash Audio + Video Player. The XSPF Jukebox is a fully skinnable, open source Flash media player. Based on my revisions of Fabricio Zuardi's original creation. A full featured media player, the Jukebox supports both mp3 audio and flv video parsed through an external .XSPF or .XML playlist. Widespread use on popular websites and packaged with PHP framework SocialEngine; Python/PHP backend playlist generation.
Contact
Charlotte, NC United States
Charlotte US
704-451-6680
Education
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2009 2014
Appalachian State University
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Computer Science
Courses- 2440 - Computer Science
- 4440 - Artificial Intelligence
- 4434 - Client-side Web Programming
- 4435 - Server-side Web Programming
- 3460 - Data Structures
- 3430 - Database
- 3482 - Computer Systems
- 3490 - Programming Languages
- 3667 - Software Engineering
- 2240 - Linear Algebra
Skills
Frontend
Expert
TypeScript / JavaScript
React / NextJS
Svelte
Astro
Vue
HTML / JSX / MDX
SCSS / CSS / BEM / Styled Components / SASS
Tailwind / Bootstrap
React Native / Flutter
Backend
Expert
Node
Python
PHP
Rust
Swift
Go
SQL / MySQL / PostgreSQL
NoSQL / MongoDB / Redis
Serverless
Microservices
Distributed Systems
Devops
Senior
Docker
AWS
G Cloud
Vercel
Netlify
Heroku
Caching
CI/CD
Testing
Growth & GTM
Senior
SEO
Google Tag Manager
Google Analytics
Landing Pages / Funnels
E-commerce (Stripe, CommerceTools)
Localization / i18n
Marketing & Outbound Automation (RPA, AI Agents)
Product Launches
WordPress / CMS
Platform
Expert
Electron
Tauri
React Native
Flutter
Application Development
Senior
Electron
Rust
Java
C/C++/C#
Tools & Integrations
Senior
TypeScript / NextJS / React / React-Native
React Query / Svelte / Angular / Astro / Vue
Docker / Wordpress / Flask / Django / Wagtail
Build tools / Babel / Webpack / Vite
CI/CD / REGEX / Git / Jenkins
AWS / SQS / SNS / Lambda / Cloudflare / Azure
Selenium / DNS / RPA / JQuery
Contentful / Stripe / CommerceTools / Plytix
Algolia / Meilisearch / PagesCMS / SanityCMS
TinaCMS / Wordpress / Django / Wagtail / Laravel
CakePHP / Drupal
AI & Agentic Systems
Expert
LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
LangChain / LangGraph
LlamaIndex
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Agent Orchestration / Multi-Agent Systems
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Vector Databases / Embeddings (pgvector, Pinecone)
Prompt Engineering / Evals
Generative AI Integrations / Automation
Neural-networks / Tensorflow
Other Languages
Intermediate
Actionscript
Java
C
C#
C++
Haskell
F#
Prolog
Interests
FPV Drone Racing / Videography
cross-platform development
IoT devices
Electrical Engineering / IoT
3D-printing
hardware development
problem solving
novel user interaction
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.