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Lily Linda Yamamoto

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Director of Engineering at Electronic Arts · API platforms · OpenAPI, Redis

Works at
Electronic Arts
Location
Vancouver, BC · PT (UTC-8)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
University of Alberta
Languages
English

Overview

Based in Vancouver. I lead API platforms at Electronic Arts. Wrote the Python service that now handles 90 million requests a day. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Canadian Tire and KPMG. Kannada theatre fan.

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Skills
PythonDjangoRedisRESTOpenAPIrate limitingPostgreSQL

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Electronic Arts · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 3.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 788ms to 88ms.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 35 a week to 3.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Jul 2023
    Canadian Tire · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
    KPMG · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Led the migration of 37 services to Django.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 27 minutes to under 5.
  4. Staff Backend Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
    Google · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 582ms to 176ms.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2013 - Mar 2016
    Lululemon · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 610ms to 146ms.

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Education

  1. University of Alberta
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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