Craig Holden
Senior Technical Lead at Ollie
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Holden is a seasoned software architect and technical leader with over 20 years of experience and a decade-plus of hands-on engineering management, currently serving as Senior Technical Lead in New York. He specializes in architecting containerized, queue-driven microservice platforms—particularly Python/Django stacks with PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Kubernetes—while also driving API design, OpenAPI documentation, and operational fitness functions. Craig has repeatedly led migrations and integrations (Mongo→Postgres, legacy→microservices) and built multi-tenant, HIPAA-sensitive systems and ETL pipelines that bridge old and new environments. He combines day-to-day coding fluency with team-building, instituting best-practice policies around security, deployment, and code quality. Beyond core backend work he ships TypeScript/React front-ends and pragmatic tools to propagate data across environments, reflecting a rare blend of full-stack discipline and operational empathy. Colleagues would note his knack for turning complex domain rules into intuitive, auditable systems that scale.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at De Anza CollegeBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at San José State UniversityHigh School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Live Oak High School
Github Skills (200)
converting10
boto10
waitress10
documentation-generator10
wsgi-application10
api-documentation10
aws10
api9
testing9
swagger9
openapi9
datatypes9
api-blueprint9
google-maps-api9
intellij-plugin9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Tecktron/dropSelect
Dec 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:13 releases, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
Tecktron/webhook-catcher
Apr 2021 - Jul 2024
Generic HTTP service based in Django designed to catch webhooks for testing
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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