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Lacy Morrow
Web engineer + open-source developer + IoT enthusiast

About

Over 20 years as a Web Developer building accessible, well-architected sites and apps. Creator of pixel-perfect, mobile-first development with graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. EXPERTISE: Full-stack developer + Hardware Engineer; Tech/Development lead; Product/Project manager; DevOps; IT consultant; Software architect; Hiring manager; SCRUM master I especially enjoy TypeScript, React, NextJS, and Electron/Tauri QUALITIES: Tech leader. Passionate about quality. Communicative and accessible; Reliable, confident, and eager to build. A highly motivated problem-solver.

Work Experience

Credit Karma
Remote
January 2025 – January 2025
Full-Stack Next.js Developer
Contract - Created the entire User Testing dashboard for Credit Karma for the User Management team. Converted pages router to App router. Built features for creating test/production users across the web and mobile experience. Included search and metrics coordinated across multiple system APIs. TypeScript, NextJS, React, Tachyons, React Native
Novant Health / Red Ventures
Remote
June 2024 – December 2024
Full-Stack Next.js Developer
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.
OptumRX Health / Red Ventures
Remote
January 2024 – December 2024
Senior React Developer
Contract - Created E-commerce site for RVO Health. Built the market, inventory, authentication, and ordering systems, complete with automation pipelines. TypeScript, NextJS, React, Contentful, Plytix, Stripe, Algolia
Swell Energy
Remote
August 2023 – February 2024
Lead Web Developer - Grid Services
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
Lumenai (Startup)
Remote
March 2023 – July 2023
Senior Web Engineer - Browser Extension
Contract Full-Stack Web Developer - Helped create foundational internal apps and build process for a browser extension using RPA 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.
TekSystems
Remote
January 2023 – June 2023
React Developer
Government contract with the VA. Built health medicine tools + calculators to lessen the amount of information patients had to fill out and help physicians get accurate stats about health issues.
Viasat
Remote
June 2022 – January 2023
Senior React Developer - In-Flight Entertainment
Contract - Managed in-flight entertainment portals for dozens of airlines. On-call. In charge of workflow management and client-stakeholder relations. Demoed product updates to stakeholders. Transformed polished designs into reusable components. React, TypeScript, NextJS, Jenkins, AWS, MySQL
Twilio Inc.
San Francisco, CA
https://twilio.com/
November 2017 – November 2021
Senior Web Engineer
In charge of twilio.com and all sub-sites. Managed and lead multiple projects, created a React design system, built the SIGNAL HackPack v4 badge. Launched WhatsApp, Studio, Flex, products. Localization/Regionalization. Implemented testing, migrated blog and legal to a CMS. Worked emergency on-call. TypeScript, React, Docker, Python, Django, Wagtail, PHP, WordPress, i18n.
LacyMorrow.com
San Francisco Bay Area & Charlotte, NC
http://lacymorrow.com
December 2006 – January 2025
Senior Developer
Full-stack Web Design & Development with 20+ years experience designing and building accessible, well-architected websites and web apps for desktop and mobile experiences.
10up
San Francisco, CA
https://10up.com/
June 2014 – September 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
Flymore (Startup)
Charlotte, NC
June 2016 – December 2017
Co-Founder / Director of Engineering
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
Long Game
San Francisco, CA
https://www.truist.com/long-game
March 2016 – November 2016
Web/React Native Developer
Contract - Helped create a startup's initial mobile app: React web-app and second-iteration React Native app for IOS and Android; Saw first launch to 100+ beta users. AWS; NodeJS; Docker; SequelizeJS; React Native
Yahoo
Palo Alto, CA
https://www.yahoo.com/
January 2016 – March 2016
React A11y Engineer - Accessibility Team
Contract - Built several React components on a Yahoo stack for the Search and Branded Marketing teams using Tumblr as a data serve API. OpenStack; Apache; Linux; NodeJS; ReactJS, Electron, NW.js, Selenium.
Invitae
San Francisco, CA
https://www.invitae.com/
June 2014 – September 2015
Software Engineer
Senior Full-Stack Web Developer - Created and maintained HIPAA-compliant back office software, data science tools, and analytics software as well as the public-facing invitae.com; UX/UI Developer - Developed navigation, modals, and interactions; Made custom WordPress theme; DevOps - Managed database health, configured continuous integration instances, web-hooks, bi-weekly deployments. Created an automated Selenium testing workflow; Tech Interviewer; Python, PHP, MySQL, Django, Flask, Angular, Backbone, React, WordPress, ElasticSearch, NightwatchJS, Git & Mercurial, Docker, Jenkins, Splunk, Apache, AWS EC2, Linux
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC
https://www.appstate.edu/
September 2010 – September 2011
Full-Stack Web Developer
Full-Stack Web Developer - Built internal websites and scheduling software. Helped develop back office software. Created custom CMS framework with PHP, Postgres used by all campus web pages; DevOps - Managed database and handled deployments; PHP, Python, Postgres, MySQL, PHPWebsite, PHPUnit, Git, Apache, Linux
Red Ventures
Rock Hill, SC
https://www.redventures.com/
March 2010 – August 2010
Web Design Intern
Front-End Web Developer - Created 10+ branded advertising websites and unique user interactions; Created promotional sites and emails. Sliced Photoshop files to create HTML email; PHP, MySQL, Linux

Awards

  • January 2020

    Github

    Arctic Code Vault Contributor

Projects

  • Juno AI:
  • Shipkit:
  • Uibrary:
  • React Component Libraries:
  • Twilio Hackpack v4:
  • CrossOver:
  • NPM Libraries:
  • Cinematic:
  • Casper:
  • Boone Community Network:
  • Phase2Productions:
  • XPlay.js:
  • XSPF Jukebox:

Contact

Charlotte, NC United States
Charlotte US
(704) 451-6680
me@lacymorrow.com
http://lacymorrow.com
LinkedIn
lacymorrow
Twitter
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github
lacymorrow

Education

  • 2009 2014

    Appalachian State University

    Bachelor of Science (BS)

    Computer Science

    Courses
    • 2440 - Computer Science
    • 4440 - Artificial Intelligence
    • 4434 - Client-side Web Programming
    • 4435 - Server-side Web Programming
    • 3460 - Data Structures
    • 3430 - Database
    • 3482 - Computer Systems
    • 3490 - Programming Languages
    • 3667 - Software Engineering
    • 2240 - Linear Algebra

Skills

Frontend Expert
TypeScript / JavaScript React / NextJS Svelte Astro Vue HTML / JSX / MDX SCSS / CSS / BEM / Styled Components / SASS Tailwind / Bootstrap React Native / Flutter
Backend Expert
Node Python PHP Rust Swift Go SQL / MySQL / PostgreSQL / MongoDB Redis Serverless Microservices
Devops Senior
Docker AWS G Cloud Vercel Netlify Heroku Caching CI/CD Testing
Web Branding Senior
SEO GTM Analytics WordPress
Platform Expert
Electron Tauri React Native Flutter
Application Development Senior
Electron Rust Java C/C++/C#
Tools & Integrations Senior
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 Engineer Evolving
LLMs Neural-networks Tensorflow Vector Databases Prompt Engineer
Other Languages Intermediate
Actionscript Java C C# C++ Haskell F# Prolog

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.