How I built a Content Management System for a React app in one day
A React/Firebase CMS to manage web content and languages.
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.
Responsibilities include leading the frontend development effort of the Continuous Profiler.
Worked on many projects whose goal is to understand performance bottlenecks and to improve front-end performance.
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).
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.
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.
Featured blogs from the last 7 years in tech.
Machine learning articles based on class materials from Stanford.
Inspirational stories about overcoming challenges.
Lily is a certified yoga instructor. She completed her 200-Hour of Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Garden SF in June 2020.
San Francisco, Feb 2019
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