# Lilith Linn > Senior Staff Software Engineer | Ruby On Rails, Distributed Systems, AI, LLMs, AWS Location: Porto, Porto, Portugal Profile: https://flows.cv/lilith Full stack software engineer from voltage on the wire to pixels on the screen. I've worked at every layer of the stack, from ethernet frames and kernel behavior through to frontend rendering pipelines. Currently a Senior Staff Engineer at a fintech startup where I've led technical design, mentored engineers, and spearheaded our AI adoption strategy both for customers and development workflows. I specialize in backend systems (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS) with strong frontend experience (Typescript, React, Angular). I also have a professional background in infrastructure, systems programming (primarily in C), cybersecurity, and hardware. I love working for companies with distributed systems work that are AI-forward and value async, remote-first culture. Outside work, I'm building an open source game in C# and Godot with AI assisted development and I stay deep in the Lisp family of languages (Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme) for the joy of it. I believe the best engineers stay curious. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ DebtBook Jan 2024 – Present | Kansas City, Missouri, United States Partner with a Product Manager and Engineering manager to lead large projects. Lead Engineers focus on technical leadership and hands-on coding. Help interview, onboard, and mentor engineers. We take a hands-on approach to onboarding and mentoring and jump into pair programming to help unblock our teammates. Lead technical designs on your team, and assist other leads by reviewing their technical designs. Review merge requests; help move work forward when it's good enough, and give feedback where work falls short. Expected to ramp up and be an expert on the general FE, BE, and the Schema patterns of our application within 3-6 months. Able to train, unblock, or lead any engineers on the team. Break down and structure work so code is shipped frequently, not in large chunks. ### Staff Software Engineer @ DebtBook Jan 2023 – Present | Kansas City, Missouri, United States Partner with a Product Manager and Engineering manager to lead large projects. Lead Engineers focus on technical leadership and hands-on coding. Help interview, onboard, and mentor engineers. We take a hands-on approach to onboarding and mentoring and jump into pair programming to help unblock our teammates. Lead technical designs on your team, and assist other leads by reviewing their technical designs. Review merge requests; help move work forward when it's good enough, and give feedback where work falls short. Expected to ramp up and be an expert on the general FE, BE, and the Schema patterns of our application within 3-6 months. Able to train, unblock, or lead any engineers on the team. Break down and structure work so code is shipped frequently, not in large chunks. ### Senior Software Engineer @ DebtBook Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Kansas City, Missouri, United States Build reusable APIs and back-end infrastructure using Ruby on Rails and the front-end interface that consumes them in React. Contribute to architecture and product decisions. Design and implement new features and enhancements to our application. Review the feasibility of UI/UX designs and propose features and functionalities to the product team. Build out reusable APIs and back-end infrastructure that are performant, scalable, reliable, and maintainable using Ruby on Rails. Ensure the app is well tested. Ownership of the front-end for our new products; from low-level optimizations to improving user experience. Solve backend challenges around scalability, caching, database load management, and API design. Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape engineering standards and process improvements at scale. Help interview, onboard, and mentor other engineers. Help expand the team and develop talent. ### Software Engineer @ Intoximeters Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Greater St. Louis Area Assisting in planning and designing of new systems. Providing on-call technical and customer support for relevent services. Research, develop, and architect software solutions at the application level. Research, design, and develop Human-Computer Interfaces, for both mobile and web. Design, document, and implement schema level changes to persistent data structures. Document and test all layers, components, and subcomponents. ### Software Developer I @ Camber Corporation Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Write and modify infrastructure related systems software in Ruby, C, and Python relating to KVM and Linux (Debian/GNU Linux in particular). ### Tech I/Developer @ Total Highspeed Internet Service Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Take calls and troubleshoot general internet related issues. Develop inventory and work efficiency applications in Python. Develop and maintain company website in PHP. ### On-site Technician @ Springfield Computer Geeks Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Travel to customer homes and businesses to fix any and all server, workstation, and general computing issues. Also have to manage daily schedule to ensure that all customers are taken care of. ### Code Ninja @ Fury Codes LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Developing and maintaining a variety of web based applications, including e-commerce, primarily in Python and PHP. Working with Django and Magento frameworks, Apache and MySQL backends on Linux servers. Job responsibilities included running both development and production Linux servers. ### Technical Services Technician @ Ozarks Technical Community College Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Researching new technologies to determine relevancy and effectiveness. Writing scripts to improve work efficiency, primarily in Perl and BASH. Assisting deployment and training for new technologies. ### User Support Technician @ Ozarks Technical Community College Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Troubleshoot technical issues on a user level, primarily windows desktops and printers. Install new computers and computer labs. Document incoming inventory and setup new devices for users. ### Counter Intelligence Agent @ Best Buy Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Check in and optimize new customer computers. Perform various Geek Squad services on newly purchased computer and/or computers being prepared for sale. ## Education ### Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) in Network and System Administration/Administrator Ozarks Technical Community College Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/azrazalea --- Source: https://flows.cv/lilith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lilith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22