Hilary Holz
Principal Engineer at Nubo
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHilary H is a Principal Engineer with 25+ years building for the web — literally since NCSA HTTPd and Mosaic — who blends hands-on full‑stack work with platform and devops leadership. She is obsessive about BDD, APIs, CI/CD, refactoring and thorny testing problems, and believes mature codebases should shrink and gain elegance over time. Data-driven by training, she holds a PhD in statistical pattern recognition and pioneered unobtrusive user‑modeling metrics (including an early "time before first scroll" signal) in academic research. In industry she has driven developer experience and infrastructure efforts at companies like DigitalOcean (contributing Kubernetes features to the official doctl CLI), Lob, Yammer and others, and contributes testing and benchmark work to Exercism’s Ruby and Go tracks. Based in Oakland, she combines rigorous measurement, clear documentation and practical tooling to make teams safer, faster and more autonomous.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at The George Washington UniversityBS, BS at Dickinson College
English, French, German
Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
benchmark10
cloud-computing10
testing10
test-cases10
testcase10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
test-framework10
benchmarking10
ruby10
tracks10
go10
commandline10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/doctl
Dec 2018 - May 2020
The official command line interface for the DigitalOcean API.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 150 commits, 238 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Hilary contributed to the Kubernetes cluster management functionality within the `doctl` CLI. They modified the `commands/kubernetes.go` file, suggesting involvement in features related to Kubernetes cluster operations, configuration, and possibly deployment automation. The commits also touch on build processes and snap packaging, indicating DevOps practices related to the CLI's build and distribution. This suggests the user played a role in expanding the `doctl` CLI's capabilities for interacting with Kubernetes and managing related infrastructure.
command-line-toolapicommand-line-interfaceinfrastructurecloud
exercism/ruby
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Exercism exercises in Ruby.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:243 commits, 87 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Hilary primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure within the exercism/ruby repository. Their commits focus on generating, updating, and refactoring test cases for various exercises, including those related to data structures, algorithms, and mathematical concepts. The user's work involved modifying test templates and extracting data from canonical datasets to streamline test creation and improve the overall testing process.
exercism-exercisesexercism-trackrubypaddingexercism
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