I build agents, interfaces, and hardware. Twenty years of shipping the web.
Full-stack engineering, AI agents, design systems, and infrastructure. Twenty years across startups, agencies, and enterprise teams.
- 2025 - 2026
Backend Developer + Agentic Engineer
American City Business Journals
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
- 2025 - 2026
Agentic Engineer + Senior Developer
Duke Energy
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
- 2025
Full-Stack Next.js Developer
Credit Karma
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
- 2024
Full-Stack Next.js Developer
Novant Health / Red Ventures
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.
- 2024
Senior React Developer + DevOps Engineer
OptumRX Health / Red Ventures
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
- 2023 - 2024
Lead Web Developer - Grid Services
Swell Energy
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
- 2023
Senior Web Engineer - Browser Extension
Lumenai (Startup)
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.
- 2023
React Developer
TekSystems
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.
- 2022 - 2023
Senior React Developer - In-Flight Entertainment
Viasat
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
- 2017 - 2021
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.
- 2014 - 2015
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
- 2016 - 2017
Co-Founder / Director of Engineering
Flymore (Startup)
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
- 2016
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
- 2016
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.
- 2014 - 2015
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
- 2010 - 2014
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
- 2010
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
- Lacy ShellAI 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 AIVoice-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 RehabFix Your Vibe Code. Finish your vibe coded projects and get them launched, deployed, and secured.
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyCompletely 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 SkillsAI 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 & ToolsModel 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.
- ShipkitNext.js Accelerator. Full-featured Next.js Starter and toolkit for building, launching, and monetizing MVPs.
- UibraryLive Collections of UI Component Libraries. UI libraries (like shadcn) presented in live, dynamic fashion. Available to remix or install.
- React Component LibrariesOpen-source component libraries for react. react-ruffle | react-is-online-context | react-github-readme-md
- Twilio Hackpack v4Twilio'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.
- CrossOverCrossHair Overlay. Electron Cross-platform custom crosshairs for PC video games. Featured in the Windows app store and Snapcraft store.
- NPM LibrariesCollection of Open-Source NPM Libraries. album-art | movie-art | movie-info | movie-trailer; etc thousands of weekly downloads
- CinematicA 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
- CasperA 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 NetworkA 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.
- Phase2ProductionsPhase2Productions 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.jsThe 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 JukeboxFlash 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.
- Frontend
- TypeScript / JavaScript, React / NextJS, Svelte, Astro, Vue, HTML / JSX / MDX, SCSS / CSS / BEM / Styled Components / SASS, Tailwind / Bootstrap, React Native / Flutter
- Backend
- Node, Python, PHP, Rust, Swift, Go, SQL / MySQL / PostgreSQL, NoSQL / MongoDB / Redis, Serverless, Microservices, Distributed Systems
- Devops
- Docker, AWS, G Cloud, Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, Caching, CI/CD, Testing
- Growth & GTM
- 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
- Electron, Tauri, React Native, Flutter
- Application Development
- Electron, Rust, Java, C/C++/C#
- Tools & Integrations
- 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
- 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
- Actionscript, Java, C, C#, C++, Haskell, F#, Prolog
- 2009 - 2014
Appalachian State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
- 2020
Arctic Code Vault Contributor
Github
- FPV Drone Racing / Videography, cross-platform development, IoT devices, Electrical Engineering / IoT, 3D-printing, hardware development, problem solving, novel user interaction
“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