Morgan Ney

Quitman, TX 75783

903.521.4816

Summary

Senior systems-focused engineer specializing in UI/UX architecture and developer tooling. Delivered measurable impact by reducing CI duration by over 90%, building containerized test ecosystems, and improving database performance for real-time workloads. Uses agentic AI workflows pragmatically to accelerate end-to-end delivery of production-grade features, from platform foundations to customer-facing web products.

Skills

Frontend

Core: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, Next.js
State & Data: GraphQL, React Query, Zustand, Redux
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

Open Source & Systems Research

Frontend Infrastructure & Tooling

2023 – Present

Architected @knighted/develop, a Compiler-as-a-Service browser IDE that delivers CDN-served JSX and CSS compilation with 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.

Experience

GrowthLoop / Senior Frontend Engineer (Full-Stack & Infrastructure Focus)

February 2025 – Present

Architected a non-isolated Vitest infrastructure for 1,600+ tests, slashing CI duration by 93% (15.5m to 63s) via MSW fixtures and strategic dependency pre-bundling.
Architected a local-first E2E testing ecosystem using Docker-in-Docker (DinD) and Playwright; developed a modular seeding utility and a transaction-based CI validator to catch schema regressions.
Engineered a real-time data-mapping engine using React Flow and PostgreSQL; optimized state-tracking via DISTINCT ON queries and concurrent indexing to deliver live record states without full-table scans.

Athena / Software Engineer

July 2024 – January 2025

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

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.

Headed2 / Sr. Software Engineer

July 2021 – June 2022, Sparkill, NY

Built the responsive K-12 home page + registration, with 50-state customization and modal/standalone flows.

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

June 2020 – July 2021, Purchase, NY

Engineered a scalable integration strategy using dynamic imports to lazy load different micro-frontends into an integrated web app.

InTouch Health / Sr. Software Engineer (Web Frontend)

July 2018 – June 2020, Santa Barbara, CA

Grew the monorepo to eleven contributors across two teams and multiple web apps.

Tenable / Sr. Software Engineer

March 2016 – July 2018, Columbia, MD

Led a monorepo modernization (Yarn Workspaces, Webpack, Gulp, React, Redux) and built a Hapi-based middleware + JSON-schema-driven API mock service.

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.