Candace Holman
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCandace Holman is a software engineer with a decade of experience designing and improving cloud-native, telephony and networking-focused systems using Go and Java. She blends hands-on backend and DevOps skills—CI/CD, containers and PaaS—with practical telecom knowledge (CTI, SNMP) to deliver reliable, operable services. Her open-source contributions to OpenShift’s API and cluster-ingress operator show a focus on production readiness: DNS/Route53 fixes, ingress routing, HSTS support, and configurable router compression. Candace thrives on technical challenges that expand domain expertise and values clear communication, mentoring, and team alignment. Based in Waltham, MA, she brings both thoughtful design foresight and pragmatic implementation instincts to distributed systems and platform projects.
10 years of coding experience
MS, MS at Harvard UniversityMajor's Certificate (BA), Major's Certificate (BA) at University of Massachusetts Boston
Github Skills (13)
ingress10
url-routing10
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
go10
openshift10
api10
devops10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
testing10
networking9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/cluster-ingress-operator
Nov 2020 - May 2022
The Cluster Ingress Operator manages highly available network ingress for OpenShift
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:829 reviews, 13 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Candace primarily focused on bug fixes and minor enhancements to the cluster ingress operator. Their contributions included addressing issues with DNS record TTLs in AWS Route 53, improving the handling of DNS provisioning failures, and implementing an e2e test for HSTS. They also worked on exposing router compression settings and bumping API versions. These changes suggest a focus on both the operational aspects and the core functionality of the ingress operator.
ingress-networkingress-controlleropenshiftoperatoringress
openshift/api
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Canonical location of the OpenShift API definition.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 12 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Candace primarily contributed to the OpenShift API definition by addressing bugs and implementing new features related to routing and ingress configurations. They fixed a DNS record TTL issue, enhanced host name validation through annotation, and implemented route admission support for the HSTS header. Further contributions included the addition of configurable compression for HTTP traffic and adjusting of health check intervals.
apiopenshiftlocationkubernetesdefinition
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