Cathy Lill
Head Of Engineering at DISCO
Australia
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Top SchoolCathy Lill is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years' experience building front-end and full-stack products and scaling teams across Australia. Currently Head of Engineering at DISCO after leading Product Engineering at Hireup, she has managed ~30 engineers across hybrid, remote and offshore setups while delivering secure, customer-facing services for vulnerable users. A former Principal Engineer at CSIRO's Data61, Cathy blends research-driven prototyping and data visualisation experience with pragmatic product delivery, having led front-end guilds and experimental projects across AI, blockchain and IoT domains. She’s skilled at balancing technical roadmaps—reducing debt, improving platform health and automating incident response—while sponsoring AI experimentation to drive product innovation. Notably, her leadership produced measurable operational wins like reduced onboarding costs, stronger PII handling and a near-zero gender pay gap in her teams. Based in Australia, she pairs deep front-end roots with proven strategic and people leadership to turn complex technical challenges into reliable, user-centred products.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA - Communications Sound Radio and Video Production Web Development, BA - Communications Sound Radio and Video Production Web Development at University of Newcastle
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Github Skills (15)
svgr9
rtc8
react-component7
loader7
webpack-loader6
foursquare6
svg-files6
microformats6
webrtc5
svgo5
react5
conferencing5
webpack4
svg3
javascript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cathylill/guitar-effects-unit
Apr 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 8 months
cathylill/homepage
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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