Summary
Lily Reile is a Ruby on Rails specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining production web applications across startups and health-tech. She brings deep expertise in the Rails ecosystem—PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, HotWire, and RSpec—and has contributed to Rails itself while maintaining a technical blog featured in Ruby Weekly. Throughout roles at Evidation Health, Zaarly, and others she has focused on reliable background processing, test-driven development, and pragmatic data work from ETL to app-level performance. Based in Vancouver, Washington, she pairs a strong engineering craft with active community participation, and is known among peers as a committed “Ruby lover” who turns internal tooling and obscure edge-case fixes into measurable product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer