Drew Holbrook
Senior Developer, Backend at Medable, Inc
Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Holbrook is a senior backend software engineer based in Crested Butte, Colorado, with seven years of experience delivering secure, scalable server-side systems in Ruby and JavaScript ecosystems. He co-created Ekko, an open-source real-time service, where he built the WebSocket server, designed AWS infrastructure to support tens of thousands of connections, containerized deployment, and an automated CDK-driven ops toolchain, with load testing reaching 50,000 concurrent connections and 300,000 messages per minute. At Medable, Inc., he serves as Senior Developer, Backend, shaping resilient back-end architectures and clear interfaces for front-end teams, while mentoring junior engineers and driving cross-functional collaboration. His background also includes self-employed full-stack projects and a leadership stint at Crested Butte Nordic, where he helped boost revenue through marketing and development. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Vermont and has completed software engineering training at Launch School, blending analytical rigor with practical coding skills. He thrives in remote, collaborative environments and is proficient with AWS, Docker, and modern cloud-native workflows.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at University of VermontSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Launch School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
command-line-tool1
server1
serverless1
realtime1
redis1
code-server1
webtransport1
transit1
cli1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dpholbrook/hello-world
Mar 2018 - Jan 2021
This is my first repository
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 10 months
pythonfirst-repository
dpholbrook/dpholbrook.github.io
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Website
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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