I lead teams that ship great software on time.
Technical architecture, project management, and hiring. Building engineering cultures from startup to enterprise.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 2017 - 2021
Senior Web Engineer & Tech Lead - Brand Team
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.
- 2014 - 2015
Senior Web Engineer - Electron Team
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
- 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
- 2014 - 2015
Software Engineer
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.
- 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.
- 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