Aubrey Holland
Staff Software Engineer at Fillout
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAubrey Holland is a product-focused staff software engineer and engineering leader with roughly two decades of experience building everything from Ruby on Rails startups to high-performance desktop and mapping applications. He’s led and scaled engineering teams (VP/Head roles at Patch, Alumnifire, Grayce) while remaining hands-on—contributing to open-source Ruby tooling such as adapting the popular octopus ActiveRecord sharding library across multiple Rails versions. Based in Asheville, NC, Aubrey combines systems-level knowledge from an MS in Computer Science with practical product instincts that prioritize maintainability and performance. He has a track record of shipping large-scale publishing and data systems that handled millions of records and complex geospatial data, and he still enjoys diving into backend compatibility and database sharding problems. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful technical direction that balances legacy modernization with shipping customer-facing features.
18 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Florida State UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
41reputation
4kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby-on-rails10
git9
parallel-processing6
monit6
amazon-web-services6
python6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thiagopradi/octopus
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
Database Sharding for ActiveRecord
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aubrey primarily contributed to the `octopus` repository, which provides database sharding functionality for ActiveRecord. The commits focus on adapting the library to different Rails versions (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 4.0), including correcting deprecated methods and handling changes in dependency locations. The contributions include modifying existing code to work with different versions of ActiveRecord, ensuring compatibility, and fixing tests to pass for Rails 4.
ruby-on-railsdatabase-shardingrailsmongoidsharding
withgrayce/klaviyo-loader
Apr 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:9 reviews, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 6 months
apijavascripttracking-jstrackingklaviyo
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.