Lacy Morrow

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. Dec 2025 - Jun 2026 · Consulting

   Technical Lead + Agentic EngineerAmerican 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. Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 · Consulting

   Senior Developer & Technical LeadDuke 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. Oct 2024 - Aug 2025 · Consulting

   Technical Lead - User ManagementCredit 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. 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 Developer & DevOps LeadOptumRX 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. Feb 2024 - Jun 2024 · Consulting

   Senior React Developer - In-Flight EntertainmentViasat

   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.

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. 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.

9. Nov 2017 - Nov 2022

   Senior Web Engineer & Tech Lead - Brand TeamTwilio 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. 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

11. 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

12. Jun 2014 - Sep 2015

    Software EngineerInvitae

    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

• 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.→

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