Lila Yasin is a software engineer at Ansible by Red Hat with four years of engineering experience and a 15+-year background in tech-adjacent roles spanning QA, bug triage, and social media management. She brings a rare blend of creative and analytical problem-solving informed by a Master’s in Library and Information Science, a BA in English, and a BM in Vocal Performance, which supports clear communication and composure under pressure. At Ansible she contributes to the AWX upstream project, focusing on backend and test automation work such as enforcing credential immutability and shipping UI safeguards. Promoted from Associate to Software Engineer, she excels at translating cross-disciplinary domain knowledge into robust, testable features for large open-source platforms.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Library and Information Science, Master's degree, Library and Information Science at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 155 reviews, 30 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lila primarily contributed to the AWX project by implementing features related to credential management, specifically preventing the editing of vault IDs post-creation. They modified serializers and added corresponding tests to enforce this immutability. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancing the UI by disabling the ability to edit the vault ID on the front-end, along with writing related tests.
This application is designed to address the disparity between politicized or bloated language and colloquial terminology, a problem that hinders information seekers from finding resources classified under hegemonic language systems. Our desire is that this resource can be expanded for the use of all information professionals regardless of industry.
Contributions:1 review, 47 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year
classifiedfindingaddressdisparityindustry
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Lila Yasin - Software Engineer at Ansible by Red Hat