Holly Becker

Email: [email protected] Location: Vancouver, Canada

Skills

Experienced

• Python & Django
• Ruby on Rails
• git
• Linux
• Developer documentation

Familiar

• MySQL & PostgreSQL
• Docker, docker-compose
• HTML & CSS
• AWS

Experience

Senior Software Development Engineer

IT Glue, July 2019-May 2022

• Wrote, tested, and reviewed Ruby on Rails code across two codebases using both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, focusing on database performance.
• Main contributor to upgrading authorization libraries, including finding and fixing security bugs.
• Regularly presented on technical topics, such as ongoing database changes, and git usage & best practices.
• Investigated performance impacts of a major database change and implemented a solution, reducing both memory usage by
• 30% and support requests related to web request timeouts.
• Did regular rotations on support escalations, troubleshooting where the problem was and fixing it for that customer or addressing the root cause, if possible.
• Improved developer experience by scripting development environment setup, improving test coverage, fixing flakey tests & warnings, and writing technical documentation.
• Onboarded junior developers about our development process, answered questions, and paired.
• Promoted transparent developer culture and public technical discussions that everyone could learn from, shared workflow improvements.
• Self-organized working on urgent projects during extended management turnover.
• Skills: Ruby, Rails, rspec, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, docker-compose, git

Python Developer

Eventbase, July 2018-April 2019

• Backend software developer creating asynchronous APIs for frontend and mobile teams.
• Wrote & expanded new async Python 3 microservices as part of a project to switch from PHP monolith. Contributed to best practices and shared templates for microservices.
• Led collaboration with other teams to confirm API design before starting implementation.
• Clarified and expanded out-of-date developer documentation.
• Team expert in Python & git, presented git tutorial and organized lunch & learns.
• Skills: Python 3, aiohttp, Docker, docker-compose, git, py.test

Lead Archivematica Developer

Artefactual, May 2013-March 2017

• Designed and implemented customer-driven features in a small team for an open source digital preservation tool in Python 2.
• Advocated for technical and process improvements, including code review, automated testing, upgrading core frameworks and replacing deprecated dependencies.
• Documented technical architecture, helped with user docs, and answered community questions.
• Skills: Python 2, Django, git, py.test, HTML & CSS, AngularJS
• GitHub

B.Sc. in Computing Science

Simon Fraser University, 2012

Presentations

• Can I Use that Code? (Conference talk, Slides) Overview of software licences, covering different categories of licences, details of common open-source licences, and how they interact in the same codebase.
• Intermediate Git Tutorial (Workshop, Slides) Workshop on using git with other people. Covered forking & pull requests on Github, git remotes, merging & rebasing. Co-created & co-presented.
• vcr.py (Lightning talk, Slides) An introduction to vcr.py, a python mocking library for HTTP requests that auto-generates fixtures from live data.
• Python Implementations (Lightning talk, Slides) An introduction to the different common implementations of Python: CPython, Pypy, Cython, Jython, IronPython.

External

• Website
• GitHub
• Stack Overflow
• Stack Overflow Careers
• LinkedIn