lilykat

I'm the co-founder of a dream journaling app startup. My role is primarily as the backend engineer but touches upon every aspect of the operations. We also do research and have worked on projects and scientific papers.

• Systems architecture
• AI integrations
• Research & Data Analysis
• APIs
• Database management

• PHP
• Symfony Framework
• Postgres
• React Native Web
• Kubernetes
• Data Analysis
• AI analysis
• Digital Ocean
• Google Cloud Management

I've done sporadic contract work for DaySmart Recreation, helping with reporting migrations and API documentation and upgrades.

• Reporting
• APIs

• PHP
• Laravel Framework
• JasperSoft Reporting
• MySQL

Part-time work for a health company to help manage compliance and document versions

• Reporting
• Document Management

• PHP
• MySQL

Worked as a full stack engineer on a LAMP stack with the Yii framework. Worked with a team of about 10-12 developers and maintained internal, customer-facing, and API systems for major telecommunications distribution.

• Ordering
• Shipping / RMA
• Inventory Management
• ERP Integrations (SAP / Epicor)

• PHP
• Yii Framework
• MySQL
• JS / Vue / HTML / CSS

B.A.S. Computer Science, GPA 4.0, Summa cum laude

Ran for student body present, ran an apologetics club too for a year

A.A.S. Web development & design, GPA 4.0

Joint-enrolled in high school, did extra credit work with the college's system admin and web developer

When I was 15, I created my own programming language following old tutorials written for Turbo Pascal which I translated into C. I followed principles from that, PHP's internals, and later the Wren language which I hope is still around. This is something that it'd be fun to work with in the future, specifically languages that are compiled to bytecode and run on some kind of VM. Oh! I also wrote a typed CSS compiler at some point which was a lot of fun. I've used tools such as Lex&Yacc (Flex&Bison in C++) but I also wrote my own lexer at one point using finite state machines.

It'd be a lot of fun to get to work on a new or developing language again!

I'm trans and would love to find a way to match my software engineering expertise with a role in activism. I'm not looking for anything flashy, but it would be great to find an opportunity to help in supporting minority communities in whatever way I can. I'm open to start-up opportunities and consulting as well. Helping my community is more important than making my way to the top of the capitalist ladder.