Morgan
Ney

Frontend Engineer

Morgan Ney

432 CR 1236

Quitman, TX 75783

morganney@gmail.com

903.521.4816

Skills

Frontend
  • Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js
  • UI: React Query, Zustand, Redux, Storybook, Styled-Components, Vanilla Extract, Emotion
  • Build Tools: Vite, Webpack, Rollup, Rspack, SWC, Babel
  • Web Fundamentals: HTML, CSS, SPA, PWA, Web Platform
Backend
Node.js, Express.js, Next.js, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Nginx, Apache, REST/JSON APIs
DevOps & CI/CD
AWS (EC2, ECS, ECR, RDS, API Gateway, S3, Lambda, Route 53, CloudWatch, Copilot CLI), Docker, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, Monorepos, Dual Packages
Testing
Jest, Vitest, Node.js Test Runner, Mocha, Cypress, Playwright, Webdriver.io, React Testing Library, jest-dom, Node:assert, Chai, Sinon.js
Other Strengths
Performance Optimization, Design Systems, Responsive UX, Accessibility (a11y)

Experience

GrowthLoop / Senior Frontend Engineer

February 2025 – Present
  • Developed an interactive canvas using React Flow to visualize and explore complex relationships within warehouse datasets, improving user comprehension and engagement.
  • Engineered a flexible combo box component with Downshift.js, supporting both single and multi-select modes, customizable rendering, and asynchronous option loading for enhanced usability.
  • Optimized front-end performance by implementing chunked rendering strategies and efficient network request batching, reducing interaction latency by a factor of sixteen and eliminating UI jank.
  • Elevated code quality and maintainability by introducing advanced tooling for linting, testing, and type checking, and by implementing pre-push hooks and codemods to enforce coding standards and streamline developer workflows.
  • Refactored codebase structure using colocation-by-feature, removed obsolete dependencies and files, and improved documentation, making onboarding easier and code maintenance more efficient.
  • Set up a robust local development environment with Docker Compose, enabling the team to run the full stack locally and facilitating seamless integration with remote services.
  • Collaborated closely with designers and product managers to deliver highly interactive, user-friendly features, prioritizing accessibility, responsiveness, and pixel-perfect UI.

Athena / Software Engineer

July 2024 – January 2025
  • Led adoption of best practices for a financial advice platform using Next.js, React, Styled Components, and TypeScript.
  • Enhanced E2E test reliability and streamlined CI/CD workflows with Playwright, improved linting, and database seeding in Docker.
  • Delivered a responsive investments dashboard featuring performance analytics via data grid and SVG-based time-series charts.

PowerSchool (acquired Headed2) / Sr. Software Engineer II

June 2022 – June 2023, Folsom, CA
  • Developed a responsive React drawing component using the HTML Canvas element, supporting HiDPI displays, erasing, undo/redo, and export as Blob or Data URL.
  • Built a React text-to-speech component integrating SpeechSynthesis, HTMLAudioElement APIs, and Amazon Polly, with support for highlighted spoken text and flexible voice synthesis for accessibility.
  • Enabled robust unit testing for Custom Element component libraries and automated Jest setup for micro-frontend consumers via tailored NPM scripts.
  • Upgraded Node.js versions and modernized NPM dependencies and Webpack builds across multiple projects, enhancing CI/CD stability and maintainability.

Headed2 / Sr. Software Engineer

July 2021 – June 2022, Sparkill, NY
  • Implemented CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, streamlining integration and deployment for Scala backend, React/Webpack frontend, and Storybook builds.
  • Modernized front-end state management by migrating legacy Redux class patterns to React Context and hooks, promoting maintainable, scalable architecture in new feature development.
  • Built a reusable React component library with Storybook, and created storybook-preset-inline-svg to enable easy inline SVG usage, laying the groundwork for consistent, scalable UI and improved developer velocity.
  • Designed and developed responsive homepage, global navigation, and multi-step registration flow for both mobile and desktop platforms.

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

June 2020 – July 2021, Purchase, NY
  • Developed features for React applications using TypeScript, Redux, Styled Components, Jest, and Testing Library.
  • Created a React component that made use of dynamic imports to lazy load different micro-frontends into an integrated web app.
  • Transitioned an OAuth 2 flow for an SPA away from the browser and into a Node/Express backend-for-frontend based on the IETF BCP.

InTouch Health / Sr. Software Engineer (Web Frontend)

July 2018 – June 2020, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Brought on as the first frontend engineer to oversee development of their new React SPA.
  • Using yarn workspaces and Docker I started a monorepo for development of SPAs, a component library, Storybook, and an Express mock server.
  • Grew the monorepo to eleven contributors that spanned two teams and multiple web apps.
  • Deployed the API for a React SPA to AWS using Amazon API Gateway and stage variables for management of different environments. Served static assets for the SPA via S3.

Tenable / Sr. Software Engineer

March 2016 – July 2018, COLUMBIA, MD
  • Spearheaded development of their next-generation architecture and stack as a mono-repo using Yarn Workspaces, Webpack, Gulp, React, and Redux (was previously a custom framework on top of jQuery).
  • Using an in-house framework built with Hapi I developed their first frontend middleware service used for aggregation and mocking of other microservices.
  • Contributed as part of the front end platform teach, providing the modules, framework, and tools to support higher-level feature development.

Previous Experience:

  • Developed chart-based SPAs to visualize energy usage across a building portfolio using React, Backbone, D3 and SVG.

    Lucid, Oakland, CA, 2014 – 2015
  • Using the Google Maps JavaScript API and HTML5 audio and video elements I developed a NextStop application allowing bus administrators to designate geographic locations where a bus would announce the next stop.

    NextBus, Emeryville, CA, 2011 – 2013

Education

SFSU

January 2007 – May 2008, San Francisco, CA

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

Berkeley City College

August 2004 – December 2006, Berkeley, CA

Studied general web programming curriculum before transferring credits to SFSU.

Awards

UCSC 2002 $20K Leadership Opportunity Scholarship.

Solicited by Packt Publishing for a technical review on an Amazon web services book.