Lacy Morrow

Engineering leader + technical architect + team builder. San Francisco, CA · Charlotte, NC.

I lead teams that ship great software on time.

Technical architecture, project management, and hiring. Building engineering cultures from startup to enterprise.

Selected Work
  1. 2025 - 2026

    Technical Lead + Agentic Engineer

    American City Business Journals

    Contract - Led development and migration of a backend Laravel platform serving 48 U.S. markets. Architected and managed an AI orchestration layer with 12 autonomous engineering agents. Agent-based workflows with task routing, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop review, grounded by RAG pipelines. Developed Claude agent personas and skill sets adopted across the development team. Laravel, PHP, AI/LLM Orchestration, Claude, LangGraph, RAG.

  2. 2025 - 2026

    Senior Developer & Technical Lead

    Duke Energy

    Led AI initiative creating an internal GPT/LLM platform for company-wide adoption, with RAG over internal documentation and Azure OpenAI integration. Directed refactoring of weather-forecasting dashboard for AWS migration. Managed authentication migration to Azure AD. Python, React, LangChain, RAG, Docker, AWS, Azure.

  3. 2025

    Technical Lead - User Management

    Credit Karma

    Led development of the entire User Testing dashboard for the User Management team. Drove architecture decisions for pages router to App router migration. Coordinated features across multiple system APIs. TypeScript, NextJS, React.

  4. 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.

  5. 2024

    Senior Developer & DevOps Lead

    OptumRX Health / Red Ventures

    Led development of E-commerce platform for RVO Health. Architected market, inventory, authentication, and ordering systems. Managed automation pipeline strategy. TypeScript, NextJS, React, Contentful, Stripe, Algolia.

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 2022 - 2023

    Senior React Developer - In-Flight Entertainment

    Viasat

    In charge of workflow management and client-stakeholder relations for in-flight entertainment portals serving dozens of airlines. Demoed product updates to stakeholders. Managed on-call rotation. Transformed designs into reusable component architecture. React, TypeScript, NextJS, Jenkins, AWS, MySQL.

  9. 2017 - 2021

    Senior Web Engineer & Tech Lead - Brand Team

    Twilio Inc.

    Led twilio.com and all sub-sites. Managed and led multiple cross-functional projects. Created a React design system adopted org-wide. Built the SIGNAL HackPack v4 badge. Launched WhatsApp, Studio, Flex product pages. Led localization/regionalization initiative. Worked emergency on-call. TypeScript, React, Docker, Python, Django.

  10. 2014 - 2015

    Senior Web Engineer - Electron Team

    10up

    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

  11. 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

  12. 2014 - 2015

    Software Engineer

    Invitae

    Full-Stack Web Developer and Tech Interviewer. Created HIPAA-compliant back office software. Led UX/UI development. Managed database health and CI/CD pipelines. Conducted technical interviews for engineering hires.

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