Aidan Holm
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Holm is a Senior Software Engineer based in Taipei with 11 years of experience building reliable test automation and core system components at Google. He designed and maintained test infrastructure relied on by hundreds of Pixel wireless engineers, improving CI reliability across platforms including Windows. His open-source work spans robust E2E test tooling (contributions to Google’s mobly) and low-level browser framework enhancements in luakit, reflecting strengths in both QA automation and C/Lua systems programming. Comfortable navigating complex environments, he combines pragmatic debugging, mock-driven testing, and performance-minded C extensions to ship maintainable solutions. Aidan’s background—BE in Computer Science from National Taiwan University and early CS training at Taipei American School—underscores a long-standing, engineering-first approach to product quality. Notably, he often focuses on subtle infra fixes (device detection, fastboot logging) that dramatically reduce flakiness for large-scale teams.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Taipei American SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
webbrowser10
python10
fastboot10
testing10
browser10
c1110
c1710
lua10
automation10
mocks10
mocker10
android10
automations10
test-automation10
windows8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
luakit/luakit
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 2134 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aidan focused on implementing features for the Luakit web browser framework, with contributions primarily related to the core Lua-based components and the C extensions. Their work included removing assertions, supporting new features (like selecting from a list of elements and setting domain-specific values). Their commits involved the modification of core C and Lua source code, including creating a system for handling different DOM elements and various bug fixes and feature additions to core aspects of the project.
luavim-likebrowsercrystal-langweb-ui
google/mobly
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
E2E test framework for tests with complex environment requirements.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Aidan's commits primarily focus on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the reliability of the `mobly` framework. They fixed tests related to Android device detection on Windows CI environments, incorporating mock objects for fastboot functionality. Additionally, they added debug logging for fastboot commands. These contributions enhance the framework's testing capabilities and maintainability, with a clear focus on automation.
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