Trent Morrell

About

Software Engineer II at Amazon with 6+ years shipping production systems. I build scalable microservices, payment integrations, and full-stack applications across React, AWS, and everything in between. Virginia Tech CS grad, cum laude. Based in Dallas, mostly held together by cold brew and whatever I'm fixated on this month.

Off the clock I'm either on a soccer pitch, on a mountain, or somewhere mid-run questioning my life choices.

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Experience

2022 — Present

Amazon

Software Engineer II
- Led launch of Gift Cards for Amazon Channels and Amazon Music, generating $1M+ combined annual revenue
- Engineered installment payment tracking service on ECS/Fargate, eliminating third-party dependencies
- Designed Pix payment integration for Brazil using Scala and QR code-based mobile banking flows
- Built chargeback tracking system with SNS/SQS/Lambda and DynamoDB for financial reconciliation
2020 — 2022

CoStar Group

Software Engineer
- Enhanced report generation system in React, increasing daily capacity from 500 to 600 reports
- Contributed to micro frontend architecture migration, achieving 25% faster development pace
- Implemented 20+ features for STS hospitality analytics integration

Projects

Waymarked

Upload vacation photos, we extract locations and cluster them into cities — pick from 40+ map styles, adjust markers, and get a custom printed map dropshipped to your door

React, EXIF Extraction, Map Styling, Print Fulfillment
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Stormlight

A workspace-native control surface for coding agents — dispatch Claude and Codex onto a daemon that owns each agent's terminal, then watch, steer, and resume them from one dashboard

Go, Bubble Tea, PTYs, Terminal Emulation
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Windrunner

The persistent terminal session engine underneath Stormlight — owned PTYs, authoritative VT emulation, and sessions that outlive every client that attaches to them

Go, PTYs, VT Emulation, Unix Sockets
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Claude WA

WhatsApp-to-Claude Code bridge via Baileys websocket client

Node.js, Baileys, Claude Code CLI
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NomadDish

Spin a 3D globe, land anywhere, get a local recipe from AI

Next.js, React Globe GL, OpenAI, OpenCage
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This Website

Retro Italian Art Deco portfolio with a hidden game

Astro, Vanilla JS, Canvas API
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Blog

August 17, 2026

Deleting tmux: Building Stormlight and the Terminal Engine Underneath It

I built a dashboard for running many coding agents at once on top of tmux, spent two weeks fighting it, then wrote my own terminal session engine and swapped it in — twenty minutes after the first commit.

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About

Experience

Amazon

CoStar Group

Projects

Waymarked

Stormlight

Windrunner

Claude WA

NomadDish

This Website

Blog

Deleting tmux: Building Stormlight and the Terminal Engine Underneath It

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