Edward Holets
Principal Software Engineer, Group Architect, Trello at Atlassian
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Holets is a Principal Software Engineer and Group Architect at Trello with 18+ years of hands-on technical leadership across startups and Fortune 500 environments. He specializes in horizontally scalable architectures, SaaS modernization, and balancing future-proof design with right-sized engineering efforts—particularly in highly regulated domains. A pragmatic builder, he focuses on robust automation, clear repeatable processes, and fostering team ownership and trusting stakeholder partnerships. His career progressed from individual contributor roles to Director of Engineering and Chief Technical Architect, demonstrating a consistent blend of execution and strategic architecture. Based in Oakland, he pairs a chemistry BA from Reed College with a systems-thinking approach that often uncovers non-obvious operational risks before they become problems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Chemistry, BA Chemistry at Reed College
Github Skills (71)
websocket10
google-maps10
voting10
isomorphic10
android-app10
nodejs10
image10
redux10
png10
react10
sdwebimage9
swift9
webp9
gif9
securid9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
labzero/lunch
Oct 2014 - Apr 2017
Lunch voting app
Contributions:6 reviews, 1448 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 5 months
reactisomorphicwebsocketandroid-appnodejs
labzero/devise_ldap_authenticatable
May 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:29 PRs, 76 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 7 months
deviseldap
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