Lily built and operates Ampara solo, a multi-tenant platform for community organizations. It serves as the CRM and CMS for Unity Conejo, and it was the infrastructure behind the org's 2026 Pride event that welcomed over 700 attendees to celebrate in Thousand Oaks, responsible for registration, check-in, and donations.
Atlas Altera
A worldbuilding project Lily contributes to. She helps build the systems that centralize and display the project's alternative geography and data, leveraging Laravel, Vue, MapLibre, and Python. She has also spearheaded initiatives around Altera's World Cup, where she developed a match simulator and a Monte Carlo backed play money betting platform, Bettor.
Illimat
Lily's unauthorized adaptation of Illimat, the card game by Twogether Studios, comprised of a Rust game engine backend compiled to WebAssembly and a Vue driven vector based frontend. She provides computer opponents through custom Monte Carlo Tree Search roll-outs.
LIST EMPLOYMENT
2020-2022Thomson Reuters
Built Genome, a homespun Terraform: YAML-defined infrastructure-as-code for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment on Azure Resource Manager and .NET Core.
Owned technical coordination for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification, as primary interface with external security auditors.
2022-2026Loop Returns
Designed a client-agnostic HATEOAS API for a platform processing roughly 100,000 returns per day, now consumed by clients including TikTok Shop.
Built Loop's side of a Kafka ingestion pipeline consuming millions of shipping events per day, driving the status and financial outcome of returns.
Moved a Shopify order-lookup flow off REST and onto GraphQL, fetching the same data in one or two round trips regardless of order size.
Refactored core financial systems for correctness, with on-call support and Datadog observability on latency-sensitive endpoints.
An LGBTQ+ advocacy and community organization in Thousand Oaks, whose mission is to make the Conejo Valley a place where queer youth can imagine a future for themselves.
Joined the board as a member at large in 2024. Elected executive board president in 2025.
2008-2012173rd Airborne Brigade
Combat medic in Logar Province, Afghanistan, then aid station manager in Schweinfurt, Germany.
Cared for 25+ combat casualties and ran a unit aid station serving 500, making care decisions under pressure with no margin for error.