Lily Barrett
Senior Software Engineer at MBTA
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLily Barrett is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications using React, TypeScript, Ruby, Node, and GraphQL, currently contributing to the MBTA. She blends hands-on engineering with community leadership—formerly co-organizing the Boston TypeScript meetup and mentoring through roles at Launch Academy and EF Education First. As a technical writer and consultant, she has shaped developer-facing content and shipping features for mission-driven companies like ButcherBox and Wistia. Off the clock she co-founded Read My Lips Boston, a women- and disability-owned pop-up bookstore amplifying underrepresented romance voices and donating proceeds to nonprofits, reflecting a rare combination of product focus and social impact. Known for shipping pragmatic, well-tested front-end experiences, she brings both technical rigor and editorial polish to cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Business at Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) Business AcceleratorBachelor's degree, English/Creative writing, Bachelor's degree, English/Creative writing at Kenyon CollegeStudy Abroad, English/Creative writing, Study Abroad, English/Creative writing at University of Exeter
Github Skills (68)
javascript10
selenium-webdriver10
typescript10
bdd9
oculus9
browserstack9
nightmare8
superset8
riotjs8
type-check8
backend8
acceptance-testing8
testing8
typechecker8
webdriverio8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lilybarrett/ratemyfosterhome_LB
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:96 PRs, 69 pushes, 47 branches in 3 months
lilybarrett/jawn-with-graphql-and-react-context
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
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