Lily Foster
Data Engineering And Reporting Consultant
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLily Foster is a data engineering and reporting consultant based in San Jose with 14 years of professional experience combining marketing analytics, HR systems data, and cloud-native data engineering. She has led end-to-end talent analytics and reporting at scale—building capacity models and executive dashboards for global TA teams—and moved enterprise ETL to Azure Databricks with medallion architecture for the U.S. OPM. Comfortable across SQL, Python, BigQuery, Fivetran, ADF and PowerBI/Tableau, she blends product-minded analytics with hands-on engineering to shorten time-to-insight. An active open-source contributor, Lily has performed full-stack work on notable projects like Sonic Pi and improvements to the Nix home-manager ecosystem, reflecting interests that span OS-level tooling to creative coding. She pairs an MS in Computational & Data Sciences and a BS in Business Administration with practical experience integrating HRIS and ATS systems, and she’s known for turning messy cross-functional data into decision-ready workflows.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computational and Data Sciences, Master of Science - MS Computational and Data Sciences at Chapman UniversityCity St George’s, University of London
Github Skills (18)
build-script10
erlang10
nix10
elixir10
configuration-management10
dotfile10
home-manager10
front-end-development10
build-automation10
testing9
qt9
cmake9
systemd8
live-coding8
git7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Code. Music. Live.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 51 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Lily primarily contributed to the build and maintenance of the Sonic Pi project. They worked on backend aspects, such as fixing boot processes for the Erlang/Elixir based Tau server, adding build configurations, and adjusting build scripts. Additionally, the user made changes to the GUI by fixing launch issues, handling webview shutdowns, and modifying the application's structure. They also added a new core team member and addressed an issue in the ImGui interface.
reactsynthesizerartsynthesislivecoding
nix-community/home-manager
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Lily contributed to the Home Manager configuration files, enhancing functionality and fixing bugs within the Nix environment. Their work included improvements to the `rofi` and `mopidy` modules, adding support for extra configuration and fixing theme definitions. They also added and refined `hyfetch` configuration, incorporating tests and preventing the writing of default settings, along with making dependencies conditional for the `udiskie` service, and adding tests.
nix-dotfilesnixosmaintainerhome-managerdotfiles
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