Emily Pillmore
Senior Engineering Manager - Data And Tooling
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Pillmore is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in data and tooling with 11 years of experience building production-quality software and leading teams across blockchain, streaming, and finance domains. A long-time functional programming advocate, she cut her teeth in Haskell—serving as CTO and now Board Member of the Haskell Foundation and contributing to flagship projects like Cabal and the Pact smart contract language. She blends hands-on backend work (refactoring Cabal’s source-distribution code and enhancing Pact’s hashing and codegen) with managerial craft, currently overseeing indexers, ETL, and OLAP at Ava Labs. Emily’s background in mathematics and applied category theory informs a rigorous approach to system design and formal verification, while her time at Disney Streaming and financial institutions shows she reliably operates at extreme scale and in regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
cabal10
smart-contracts10
pact10
build-tools10
build-system10
package-management10
haskell10
blockchain10
cryptography9
documentation8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
kadena-io/pact
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
The Pact Smart Contract Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 444 reviews, 329 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the development of the Pact smart contract language. Their commits focused on adding features related to base-n hashing support and incorporating Stuart's hex string to integer functionality. They also addressed issues with code generation, improved error messages, and implemented improvements to the documentation of the language.
smart-contractspactblockchain
haskell/cabal
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 227 reviews, 166 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily focused on refactoring and cleaning up the codebase related to the source distribution of Cabal. Their contributions involved removing dependencies on zip archives, cleaning up redundant imports, and removing deprecated code related to archive formats, specifically those related to targz archives. Additionally, they also worked on the `init` command refactoring and documentation updates.
cabal-installcabalhaskellhackage
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