Morgan Ney

Senior Frontend EngineerUI/UX, Architecture & Tooling

morgan.neys.info/resume

Morgan Ney

Quitman, TX 75783

morganney@gmail.com

903.521.4816

Summary

Senior frontend engineer who builds user–focused features and the tooling that helps teams ship reliably at scale. Product–minded with strong UI/UX instincts, translating Figma into polished interfaces, reusable components, and durable developer infrastructure.

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
  • 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, REST/JSON APIs
  • Databases: Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • DevOps: AWS, Docker, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions
Testing & Quality
  • Frameworks: Jest, Vitest, Node.js Test Runner
  • UI & E2E: React Testing Library, Playwright, Cypress
AI & Velocity
  • Practices: Agentic workflows, AI prototyping, automated code review

OSS & Technical Research

Frontend Systems & Tooling

2023 – Present

Built @morganney/swc-walk, a fast AST traversal utility for the SWC ecosystem with strong community adoption. Created @knighted/duel to automate dual ESM/CJS builds and reduce interoperability friction in Node.js projects. Implemented @knighted/specifier to parse module imports/exports for specifier rewrites and AST metadata.

AI-Driven Web Primitives

December 2025 – Present

Architected a suite of high-performance primitives including @knighted/css (CSS pipeline) and @knighted/jsx (JSX runtime/loader), plus @knighted/jsx-ts-plugin (editor diagnostics) using agentic AI workflows. Validated the stack with the css-jsx-app demo. Leveraged LLMs for complex AST refactoring and automated PR auditing to accelerate development cycles from concept to published NPM packages.

Experience

GrowthLoop / Senior Frontend Engineer

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, custom-element safety patterns, and strategic dependency pre-bundling.
  • Engineered an interactive React Flow builder canvas to model complex relationships within warehouse datasets, improving user comprehension.
  • Slashed interaction latency by 16x via chunked rendering and request batching; built a flexible, async multi-select combo box with Downshift.js.

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.