I build autonomous agents and the orchestration that keeps them honest.
Multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and MCP tooling in production. Twelve engineering agents at BizJournals; a voice-operated desktop with Juno.
- 2025 - 2026
Agentic Engineer
American City Business Journals
Contract - Architected an AI orchestration layer managing 12 autonomous agents that independently completed engineering tasks across a 48-market business publication platform. 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 for the development team. Laravel, PHP, AI/LLM Orchestration, Claude, Autonomous Agents, LangGraph, RAG, MCP.
- 2025 - 2026
Agentic Engineer
Duke Energy
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. Built agentic workflows for internal tooling. Python, React, LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG, LLMs, Azure, AWS.
- 2025
Full-Stack Next.js Developer
Credit Karma
Built automated User Testing dashboard with features for creating test/production users programmatically across web and mobile. Coordinated search and metrics across multiple system APIs. TypeScript, NextJS, React, React Native.
- 2023
Senior Web Engineer - Browser Extension
Lumenai (Startup)
Built RPA automation browser extension. Created foundational internal apps with automated deployments and self-built CI/CD. The company saw a 15% rise in productivity and experienced 35% growth in 6 months. React, Docker, Jest.
- 2017 - 2021
Senior Web Engineer
In charge of twilio.com and all sub-sites. Built the SIGNAL HackPack v4 badge (open-source hardware). Created a React design system. Managed multiple engineering projects. TypeScript, React, Docker, Python, Django.
- 2016 - 2017
Co-Founder / Director of Engineering
Flymore (Startup)
Developed software to livestream 4 analog FPV drone feeds simultaneously. Co-founded drone education startup teaching kids software & electronics. ReactJS, GraphQL.
- 2014 - 2015
Software Engineer
Created data science tools and analytics software for HIPAA-compliant healthcare platform. Built automated Selenium testing workflows. Python, Django, Flask, React, ElasticSearch, Docker.
- 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.
- 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.
- NPM LibrariesCollection of Open-Source NPM Libraries. album-art | movie-art | movie-info | movie-trailer; etc thousands of weekly downloads
- 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