About Lily

Lily is a software engineer with a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT. After graduating from MIT, she moved to San Francisco to start her career in the tech industry. She has been an engineer since 2015, with experiences from series A startups to enterprise with 10k+ employees. She has worked with Ruby on Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Firebase, Python, and of course, React.

Lily is a well-rounded curious individual who enjoys a good challenge and learning new things. She has taken a UX design bootcamp through General Academy and Machine Learning classes through Stanford.

Lily is a strong believer in the power of documentation, and as such, an avid writer. She has been documenting and sharing her experiences and learnings - both in tech and outside of tech - since 2016. Her blog on Medium has over 6k followers.

Coding & Resume
2022 - Present
Datadog
Senior software engineer

Responsibilities include leading the frontend development effort of the Continuous Profiler.

2019 - 2022
Slack Technologies
Front-end infrastructure engineer

Worked on many projects whose goal is to understand performance bottlenecks and to improve front-end performance.

2017 - 2019
Apollo.io
Software engineer

Built many of Apollo's sales features (e.g. frontend of an analytics engine used for insights, a rules engine for automating tasks, and a scoring engine for assigning weights to contacts' and accounts' features).

2016 - 2017
Pillow
Software engineer

Identified and solved technical issues across the web stack. For example, developed integration testing framework, optimized the loading speed of the homepage, automated handling of support emails.

Led the development of many core product features in both web and React-Native mobile app.

2015 - 2016
Lumos Labs
Front-end developer

Automated the manual process of email UI testing (with the Litmus platform).

Led the very first conversion of a frequently visited static HTML page to React for faster rendering and better user experience.

Implemented and analyzed A/B tests for homepage, marketing emails, and paywalls.

Yoga & Dance

Lily is a certified yoga instructor. She completed her 200-Hour of Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Garden SF in June 2020.

Lily is a pole dancer who has won multiple awards at national competitions. Check out her first place championship routine right below!

San Francisco, Feb 2019

San Francisco, Aug 2019

Seattle, Nov 2017

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