Lily Rice

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Director of Engineering at Nvidia | ex-Salesforce

Nvidia
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Wharton
English
Open to work
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Overview

Based in Boston. I lead developer tools at Nvidia. Shipped 28 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback. Moved 88% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with CLI design and Rust.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in developer tools
  • Second opinions on LSP decisions
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
CLI designcompilersRustLSP
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Staff Software Engineer roles in creator tools - Boston or remote

Target roles
Staff Software Engineer
Level
Staff / Principal
Industries
Developer tools, Climate tech
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the MA
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series A) where developer tools is core to the product.
Not interested in
Pure people management

20 years in developer tools. Strongest at CLI design and LSP. Open to the right conversation.

Boston, MAlspcli designcompilers
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    May 2025 - Present
    Nvidia · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Moved 84% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 800ms to 43ms.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Feb 2023 - May 2025
    Salesforce · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 5.
  3. Software Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
    Instacart · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 55 million requests a day.
    • Moved 78% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2020
    Snap · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Shipped 28 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Dec 2014 - Sep 2017
    Dell Technologies · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Moved 65% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker
2024

Built with Rust and CLI design. 3059 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Wharton
    MBA, Business Administration
    2005 - 2007
  2. Northwestern University
    BA, Mathematics
    2001 - 2005

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