# Lily L. > Software Engineer at Wirecutter Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lilyl I'm a software engineer interested in user experience. If you're interested in learning more or collaborating, you can reach me at lilylou16@gmail.com or visit my website at www.lilylou.me. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ NYT Wirecutter Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Audience Growth team ### Elections Web Scraper @ The Associated Press Jan 2020 – Present Testing and building internal technology infrastructure for the Associated Press elections web scraping team, scraping county and state sites for elections results. Lead automated web scraping teams on elections nights. Technologies used: Flask, HTML, Javascript, Python. ### Front End Developer @ Rest of World Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States Rest of World is a nonprofit publication covering technology stories in countries outside the West. Since 2021, I've worked at Rest of World as 1 of 2 developers on the product team, contributing to a wide range of projects including Google Analytics and schema, website features, CMS additions, and bespoke story treatments. ### Software Engineer @ Own Up Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Worked on agile team focusing on front-end development and data visualizations using React and Typescript. ### Data Fellow --> Mentor @ Bluebonnet Data Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Data fellow: Researched broadband service datasets to visualize and create list of voters living inside internet deserts within district using ArcGIS, qGIS, and Python for Sam Edney’s NC House of Representatives campaign in team of 3 fellows. Mentor: Advised two new Bluebonnet teams for local organizations and campaigns. ### Federal Associate Developer @ IBM Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States Full-stack developer on cloud applications team using Java EE and React on a government contract. ### Innovation Fellow (Product Manager/Developer) @ UNC Reese Innovation Lab Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina • Updated and made changes to reeseinnovate.com in HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Go using Bootstrap and Hugo frameworks. Attended meetings defining weekly goals for site. • Consulted with local newspaper to increase advertising revenue through sponsored content and transitioning newspaper to digital. Researched demographic data, digital news trends, newsletters, and alternative web-hosting services. ### Summer HCII Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction Institute Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States • Worked in teams to adapt learning games and intelligent tutoring systems from Flash to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using Ionic and jQuery frameworks for research on educational games and learning. • Used responsive design and mobile-first development. Wireframed designs for site and identified possible features and improvements. Wrote unit tests and debugged web applications. • Presented findings in two research poster presentations at end of fellowship. ### Accelerate Fellow @ Teach For America Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Rotational fellowship consulting with educational organizations in Albuquerque, Nashville, and Chicago using human-centered design. • New Mexico Legislative Education Study Committee: Examined New Mexico’s public school district funding formula distributing $19 million. Researched transportation policies and presented solutions to inequitable distribution using state-by-state comparison. Discovered $280,000 error in funding formula for 2015-16 year. • Trailblazer Coalition: Worked in teams using human-centered design to make policy recommendations on increasing teacher diversity in Nashville Public Schools through recruitment, retention, and state-wide policy. • Classkick: Using teacher feedback and data, made recommendations for streamlining app onboarding and increased conversion rate of users from free to Pro version. Created video tutorials highlighting Pro features. ### Undergraduate Intern @ UNC's Southern Oral History Program Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina • Researched oral history and American Indian activism at UNC, conducted oral history interviews and wrote accompanying field guides, transcripts, tape logs, and abstracts. • Managed intern Twitter account and shared social media posts updating followers on intern projects and designed flyers and visuals for events and promotions. Implemented new social media strategies to engage followers, such as using TweetDeck to queue posts, sharing articles and tweets relevant to American Indian activism, and live tweeting events hosted by the Southern Oral History Program. • At end of internship, conducted a performance with other interns concluding research from semester, focusing on themes of American Indian identity and activism. • Presented research at 2018 Oral History Association conference in Montreal, Canada. ### Editor In Chief @ Synapse Magazine Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina Managed editorial budget, worked on recruiting and hiring writers, worked with writers to edit drafts, rebranded Synapse Magzine website and social media accounts. ### Freelance Writer @ Various Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Freelance writing published in Paste Magazine, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Rookie Magazine, and others. ### Editorial Intern @ Gizmodo Media Group Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Pitched and wrote blog posts on topics including politics debriefings, app reviews and beauty hacks for Lifehacker. ### National Contributor @ Spoon University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • Wrote articles about food and pitched 4­-5 article topics with accompanying headlines weekly. • Over 250,000 unique views on Spoon University articles, in the top 0.5% of all Spoon University contributors. • Articles syndicated on BuzzFeed, TIME, USA Today College, Brit + Co., Bustle, Yahoo!, Delish and others. • Took pictures for articles, researched emerging food trends, and curated unique recipes to post on website. • Helped advertise brands such as Eat Street. Used SEO and Google Analytics. ### Editorial Intern @ Paste Magazine Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 • Pitched and researched article ideas for news section; created weekly style sales gallery for Style section. • Wrote 3-5 articles daily, including editing and finding photos for articles. • Assisted in organizing, photographing and editing photoshoot of craft beer for Paste taste test article. ### Staff Writer --> News Editor @ The Guilfordian Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 • Worked with 3-5 writers weekly: edited article drafts and helped with sourcing and research. • Pitched 4-5 weekly story ideas on local and university news for news section; emphasized online-first breaking news stories and social justice reporting. • Worked with different departments to discuss upcoming issues and write weekly staff editorials. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science; American Studies The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lily-lou - Portfolio: https://lilylou.xyz/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/lilyl JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lilyl/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13