Projects | Steve Lacey – Software Engineer

Scorbit connects pinball machines of any age to the cloud, unlocking more fun, engagement and revenue. I led the backend development of their web application and APIs, and rebuilt their marketing site.

Enjin build a suite of user-first blockchain products that enable game developers to easily create, manage, distribute, and integrate blockchain assets. I worked on their Laravel + Vue SPA and GraphQL APIs.

Gun.io helps world-class engineering teams hire the world’s most sought-after freelance engineers at a moment’s notice. I worked on their Django/Vue web app and as a freelancer on the platform.

Law School Transparency helps prelaw students make strategic choices about where to attend law school. I led the Product & Engineering team and consulted on various strategies at LSAC.

Open Up Music support Music Education Hubs, arts organizations and schools to create orchestras that are accessible to young disabled people. I built the Open Orchestras Laravel app, and the Django API that powers The Clarion.

Tap makes it simple to see what personal data organisations hold about you, and then act on it.

An internal Django app for Universal Music for managing artist and press assets, built using tech like Docker, Elasticsearch, Vue and Kubernetes.

Coworkations helps you find the remote working community that is right for you: a database of 170 digital nomad retreats running 2,500 trips across 120 countries, which I built on my own and still run.

Hanzo: Defensible standards-based web and social media archiving.

CloudConvert is an online file converter that supports many audio, video, and document formats.

Ruby

CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work.

Rails
Ruby

An independent daily news site for Teton Valley, Idaho. I built the parts readers touch around the reporting: social cards, search, dark mode, and a front page that carries the valley's public meetings.

Flow Canon is Wade Williams and me: two senior engineers and a fleet of AI agents, who you call when the software that pays the bills is on fire.

Seanovel book reader app.

Zilly helps property owners manage rentals from anywhere.

Financial analysis for fund managers.

WhatsApp Now: send messages without adding numbers into your address book.

React

An open-source Cloudflare Worker that turns any page on your site into a screenshot, PDF or video, for share cards that look designed rather than cropped.

Node.js

Avatars that are always the same for the same person: their Gravatar or Libravatar photo, falling back to colorful initials. A Python package on PyPI, with a Django mixin.

My website. Such recursion. A portfolio, résumé and travel journal, rebuilt five times since 2008, now on Laravel.

Care2Rock offers online music lessons with superior teachers who are changing the world. I did some work on the Laravel app and WordPress frontend.

A command line tool for macOS Wi-Fi: scan, connect, forget, share passwords as QR codes, change DNS and spoof MAC addresses, on npm and Homebrew.

Django REST Framework's browsable API, for Laravel: JSON APIs served as readable, clickable HTML when you open them in a browser. 20,000 installs on Packagist.

Laravel
PHP

The Clarion is an accessible musical instrument that can be played with any part of the body. I built the Django-based API that powers it, and I still look after it.

Rusic is a platform for social campaigns for customers and employees, in minutes, that scale.

Rails
Ruby

AiM Rental Approval System helps dealerships manage rentals of cars let in the US.

A drop-in replacement for placehold.it, in Django: placeholder images from your own app, with the same URLs. 22,000 downloads on PyPI.

Simple team-based contact management for organisations via the web and over CardDAV.

Anti Money Laundering checks, the way they should be.

Symfony
PHP

Deki empowers people living in poverty to create sustainable livelihoods by providing access to ethical microloans and training.

Laravel
PHP

The website for PHP South West UK, the PHP user group in Bristol, which I built and ran on Silex from 2014.

Silex
PHP

Symfony2 ecommerce build for Nutrition Centre, vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements store.

Symfony
PHP

Symfony2 ecommerce build for Fleur of England, luxury lingerie design house.

Symfony
PHP

The IFS is Britain's leading independent microeconomic research institute. I consulted on their Symfony2 rebuild, and helped build out their calendar and Elasticsearch solutions.

Symfony
PHP

Symfony2 ecommerce build for the BBI Group, leading experts in immunoassay development and manufacturing services.

Symfony
PHP

Motoratings gives motorists the opportunity to freely rate and leave feedback on their experience when visiting car dealers.

Symfony
PHP

For your complete learning and teaching of British Sign Language.

Symfony
PHP

Moltin wanted payment gateway parity with Shopify. I helped them build out a Rails microservice that wrapped up ActiveMerchant into an internal REST API for consumption by their PHP backends.