Morgan Ney

Senior Frontend EngineerUI/UX, Architecture & Tooling

morgan.neys.info/resume

Morgan Ney

Quitman, TX 75783

morganney@gmail.com

903.521.4816

Summary

I build frontend systems end-to-end — not just the screens people see, but the testing infrastructure and delivery pipelines behind them. For over 10 years, I've done that across healthcare, security, financial, and transit products, mostly in React and TypeScript. AI tools are part of my daily workflow now, but I still read and own everything before it ships.

Skills

Frontend
  • Core: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, Next.js
  • State & Data: GraphQL, React Query, Zustand, Redux, React Hook Form, Zod
  • UI & Visualization: SVG, HTML5 Canvas, D3.js, React Flow
  • Styling: Vanilla Extract, Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Sass
  • Accessibility: WCAG, WAI-ARIA, Semantic HTML, Keyboard/Focus Support
  • Design Systems: Storybook, Chromatic, Figma, Radix UI, MUI, Design Tokens
  • Tools: Vite, Webpack, Rollup, Rspack, OXC, SWC, Babel, LightningCSS
Backend & Infrastructure
  • Core: Node.js, Express.js, Ruby on Rails, REST/JSON APIs
  • Databases: Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • DevOps: AWS, GCP, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
Testing & Quality
  • Frameworks: Jest, Vitest, Node.js Test Runner
  • UI & E2E: RTL, Playwright, Cypress, MSW, Automated Seeding & Mocking
AI & Velocity
  • Practices: Agentic workflows, AI prototyping, automated code review

Experience

GrowthLoop / Senior Frontend Engineer

February 2025 - Present
  • Led development of GrowthLoop's React component library (Hylo), establishing typed token contracts, theme/cascade-layer styling architecture, WCAG-conscious primitives, and a shared Vite/Storybook pipeline for consistent UI across product lines.
  • Architected a non-isolated Vitest infrastructure that cut CI runtime by 93% (15.5m to 67s) for 1,900+ tests across 200+ files, and now scales to 3,000+ tests across 327+ files (~32s local, ~158s on GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest).
  • Architected and evolved a local-first Playwright E2E ecosystem across GitLab and GitHub Actions using Docker, with modular test-data seeding and transaction-based validation to catch schema regressions early.
  • Partnered with DevOps to move frontend bundles and static assets to a global CDN, improving browser caching and page-load reliability, and making rollbacks safer through uniquely versioned asset URLs.
  • Engineered a real-time data-mapping engine with React Flow and PostgreSQL, using an indexed materialized view plus since_token polling to reduce server load and UI re-renders.

Athena Advisory (Contract) / Senior Frontend Engineer

August 2024 - January 2025
  • Built a responsive investments dashboard for accounts, holdings, and performance using a data-grid and SVG time-series charts with selectable date ranges.
  • Transitioned to GrowthLoop via an accelerated offer from an earlier interview process.

Planned Career Break + OSS Development

June 2023 - July 2024
  • Took a planned personal sabbatical focused on childcare while maintaining active OSS development and technical depth.
  • Built and maintained OSS tooling projects during this period.
  • Developed try.busmap.online as a full-stack transit web app with map-based UX and real-time arrivals using React, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker.

PowerSchool (acquired Headed2) / Sr. Software Engineer

July 2021 - June 2023, Sparkill, NY & Folsom, CA
  • Built a React text-to-speech component integrating SpeechSynthesis and Amazon Polly with highlighted text and accessible voice controls.
  • Developed a high-performance HiDPI Canvas drawing tool featuring ResizeObserver scaling, fixed-stack undo/redo, and Blob/Data URL serialization.
  • Built the responsive K-12 home page + registration, with 50-state customization and modal/standalone flows.

Teladoc Health (acquired InTouch Health) / Sr. Software Engineer

July 2018 - July 2021, Santa Barbara, CA & Purchase, NY
  • Built hospital administrator dashboard experiences for operational monitoring and workflow oversight in an integrated web application.
  • Engineered a scalable integration strategy using dynamic imports to lazy load different micro-frontends into an integrated web app.

Tenable / Sr. Software Engineer

March 2016 - July 2018, Columbia, MD
  • Developed security vulnerability dashboard experiences that improved visibility into risk and remediation status for engineering teams.
  • Led monorepo modernization (Yarn Workspaces, Webpack, React/Redux) and built a Hapi middleware plus JSON-schema-driven API mock service.

Recent OSS Projects

Frontend Infrastructure & Tooling

2023 - Present
  • Architected @knighted/develop, a UI component workbench with compiler-as-a-service that delivers CDN-served JSX and CSS compilation, live previews, integrated type checking, and linting, serving as a high-fidelity demonstration of @knighted/jsx and @knighted/css.
  • Built @morganney/swc-walk, a high-performance AST traversal utility for the SWC ecosystem with strong community adoption for compiler-adjacent workflows.
  • Created @knighted/duel and @knighted/specifier to automate dual ESM/CJS builds and module specifier rewrites, reducing interoperability friction in complex Node.js environments.

Education

SFSU

January 2007 - May 2008, San Francisco, CA

Studied general computer science curriculum after transferring credits from Berkeley City College.

Awards

UCSC 2002 $20K Leadership Opportunity Scholarship.