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Lacy Morrow

Agentic & web engineer + open-source developer + hardware hacker. San Francisco, CA · Charlotte, NC.

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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.

Selected Work

  1. Dec 2025 - Jun 2026 · Consulting

    Backend Developer + Agentic EngineerAmerican 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

  2. Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 · Consulting

    Agentic Engineer + Senior DeveloperDuke 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

  3. Oct 2024 - Aug 2025 · Consulting

    Full-Stack Next.js DeveloperCredit 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

  4. Oct 2024 - Dec 2024 · Consulting

    Full-Stack Next.js DeveloperNovant 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.

  5. Mar 2024 - Jul 2024 · Consulting

    Senior React Developer + DevOps EngineerOptumRX 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

  6. Feb 2024 - Jun 2024 · Consulting

    Senior React Developer - In-Flight EntertainmentViasat

    Contract - Kept in-flight entertainment portals live for dozens of airlines, owning workflow management, on-call, and client-stakeholder relations. Turned polished designs into a reusable component library and demoed product updates to stakeholders. React, TypeScript, NextJS, Jenkins, AWS, MySQL

  7. Jul 2023 - Feb 2024 · Consulting

    Lead Web Developer - Grid ServicesSwell Energy

    Contract - Gave grid operators the charts, dashboards, and control panels they use to manage solar and power utilities across southern California and Hawaii. Shipped the authentication, API, UI, and CRUD behind them. TypeScript, NextJS, React, Python, Django, Docker, PostgreSQL

  8. May 2023 - Jun 2023 · Consulting

    React DeveloperTekSystems

    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.

  9. Jan 2023 - Mar 2023

    Senior Web Engineer - Browser ExtensionLuminai (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.

  10. Nov 2017 - Nov 2022

    Senior Web EngineerTwilio Inc.

    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.

  11. Feb 2017 - Sep 2017

    Senior Web Engineer - Electron Team10up

    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

  12. Jun 2016 - Jan 2017

    Co-Founder / Director of EngineeringFlymore (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

  13. Mar 2016 - Nov 2016 · Consulting

    Web/React Native DeveloperLong Game

    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

  14. 2016

    React A11y Engineer - Accessibility TeamYahoo

    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.

  15. Jun 2014 - Sep 2015

    Software EngineerInvitae

    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

  16. Sep 2010 - May 2014

    Full-Stack Web DeveloperAppalachian State University

    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

  17. Mar 2010 - Aug 2010

    Web Design InternRed Ventures

    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

Open Source & Projects

Skills

Frontend
TypeScript / JavaScript, React / NextJS, Svelte, Astro, Vue, Tailwind / Styled Components, 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

Education

  1. 2009 - 2014

    Appalachian State University

    Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

Awards

  1. 2020

    Arctic Code Vault Contributor

    Github

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.”

Ryan Kirkram, Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo