Lacey Pevey
Managing Director at Ovid Labs
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolLacey Pevey is a seasoned technology and operations leader with nine years of software-focused experience and a broader 20+ year career in underwriting, risk, and business leadership. As Managing Director of Ovid Labs and an active entrepreneur (owner of Louisiana Roasting Company, former Code Ninjas franchisee), she blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor. A frequent open-source contributor, Lacey has made backend improvements to the high-profile Medusa commerce platform—implementing session management features, S3-backed file services, and improved logging/error handling. Her background as a former VP and Chief Underwriting Officer gives her a rare mix of technical hands-on development and deep domain expertise in insurance and risk. Based in Shreveport, LA, she combines startup grit with corporate discipline and a habit of shipping practical, audit-friendly solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Columbia University - Columbia Business SchoolBS in Management and Economics, BS in Management and Economics at Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
medusa10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
commerce10
ecommerce10
api8
api-design8
aws8
svelte6
sveltekit6
amazon-cognito6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
medusajs/medusa
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
The world's most flexible commerce platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 22 PRs, 133 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Lacey primarily contributed to the Medusa e-commerce platform by implementing backend features and configurations. Their work includes adding session options like `rolling` and `name` for session management, which impacts how user sessions are handled. They also refactored and updated file service related functionalities with the s3 bucket. The user also improved the logging and error handling for different modules.
shopifycartmedusareactecommerce
pevey/medusa-plugin-ses
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Notifications plugin for Medusa ecommerce server that sends transactional emails via AWS SES (Simple Email Service).
Contributions:1 review, 27 commits, 3 PRs in 3 days
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