Lily Foote
Production Manager at GEO
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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RockstarLily Foote is a production manager and experienced software engineer with 13 years in tech, based in the Greater Melbourne Area. She blends hands-on backend and frontend development—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Django and Django REST Framework—with production and DevOps work for mobile packaging in the Kivy ecosystem. Her contributions show a practical focus on maintainability and compatibility, from ChoiceField metadata and unit tests in DRF to integrating Kivy-Garden packages into Buildozer and enhancing Kivy’s TextInput UX. Comfortable working across stacks, she’s known for fixing subtle cross-version issues and shipping reliable, well-tested changes that keep frameworks robust for downstream users.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (36)
unit-testing10
web-widgets10
api-rest10
widgets10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
packaging10
django-rest10
ui-design10
kivy10
textinput10
android-developer10
uid10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
django/django
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:281 reviews, 2 commits, 38 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lily primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Django framework. Their work involved addressing issues related to string handling, type conversions, and nested lookups. They also implemented features such as database defaults and deferrable constraints, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the framework's functionality and data management capabilities. The contributions span across core components and tests.
pythondjango-frameworkappsdjangoframework
kivy/kivy
Feb 2013 - Nov 2013
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Lily primarily contributed to the Kivy UI framework, focusing on the `TextInput` widget. They added a `hint_text` property to the `TextInput` widget, along with associated styling such as `hint_text_color` and ensuring font properties are respected. They also implemented the core functionality for displaying and refreshing the hint text, as well as ensuring the hint text is shown correctly even when the password is set to True. Further contributions involved minor documentation updates and the addition of a `CssListProperty`.
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
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