# Lilly Li

> Senior Software Engineer at Affirm, Inc.

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lilly

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in web/backend development. Skilled in Golang, Python, NodeJS, C++. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Computer Science and Linguistics from University of California, Los Angeles.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Affirm, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Affirm, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend software engineer on the Financial Instruments team.

- Built core features for Affirm Plus (Line of Credit)
- Onboarded new-hires, mentored junior/intern team members
- Worked with Python, SQLAlchemy, Swagger

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend software engineer on the Global Infrastructure Services team.

- Worked on backend logic in Golang for flow of 15+ microservices, performing project provisioning/route creation automation in Kubernetes, supported by StackStorm
- Designed/implemented unified error system for efficient end-to-end testing on all microservices, with detailed documentation
- Maintained code for new and existing microservices using table-driven tests, mocking, dependency injection, and ensuring minimum line coverage of 80%+
- Developed workflows/packs in Python for StackStorm to orchestrate all microservices
- Worked with Golang, Go-Swagger, Python, StackStorm, with training in Kubernetes

### Software Engineer @ ZipRecruiter
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Monica
Backend software engineer on the Job Seeker team.

− Implemented automated follow-up SMS for job seekers, impacting over 500k users per month
− Integrated ZipRecruiter’s first internal OAuth2 auth server with asynchronous HTTP client using RESTful API, used by internal dev teams
− Wrote applicant tracking system integrations for third-party job board postings (e.g. Google for Jobs, LinkedIn)
− Created dynamic profile completion panel on job seeker homepage encouraging users to complete their profiles based on incomplete items, impacted user base of over 1mil
− Worked with Perl, Catalyst, Git, OAuth2, MySQL, Redshift, XML, DynamoDB

### Full Stack Intern @ UCLA Web Development Services
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Los Angeles
Designed+developed web application to host testing services with PHP/Laravel using full LAMP stack. Also implemented Github Webhooks and automated ticket-pushing with JIRA API. Worked primarily in PHP, SQL, with some work in Semantics UI and Bootstrap (HTML/CSS/JS).

### Front End Developer/Graphic Design Intern @ Morning Sign Out
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA
Morning Sign Out is a medical informant group that publishes student-produced articles on recent medical discoveries, facts, general information tailored to the general public
Provided front-end development for iOS platform. Worked primarily in Objective-C, with MVC logic


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics and Computer Science
UCLA

### High School
Lynbrook High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/liliwei94

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Source: https://flows.cv/lilly
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lilly/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29