Lacy Morrow

Agentic engineer + AI systems builder + hardware hacker. San Francisco, CA · Charlotte, NC.

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.

Selected Work
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 2017 - 2021

    Senior Web Engineer

    Twilio Inc.

    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.

  6. 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.

  7. 2014 - 2015

    Software Engineer

    Invitae

    Created data science tools and analytics software for HIPAA-compliant healthcare platform. Built automated Selenium testing workflows. Python, Django, Flask, React, ElasticSearch, Docker.

Open Source & Projects
Skills
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
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