Summary
Dave Lilly is a creative technologist and founder with over two decades of experience turning complex software and narrative challenges into practical, emotionally resonant work. He leads Mouse Trap Studios, where he blends film-making, voice work, and automation—building custom pipelines with Home Assistant, Python, and shell scripts to make creative production efficient. His background spans senior engineering and solutions roles at Oracle, commercetools, and Starmount, plus hands-on consulting for small businesses, giving him a rare mix of enterprise architecture chops and scrappy implementation ability. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he now balances studio leadership with customer-facing roles in live events and broadcast, demonstrating a talent for shipping both polished media and reliable infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as someone who writes systems like stories and stories like systems, always aiming to make people feel something while respecting their time.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Meeting and Event Planning, Meeting and Event Planning at Austin Community College