Hilary Holz
Principal Engineer at Nubo
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHilary Holz is a Principal Engineer in Oakland with 25+ years in software engineering and a deep specialization in web technologies dating back to NCSA HTTPd and Mosaic. She blends rigorous, data-driven thinking—anchored by a PhD in pattern recognition—with hands-on expertise in APIs, BDD, CI/CD, refactoring, and thorny test automation. Hilary has driven developer experience and infrastructure improvements at companies like DigitalOcean and Lob, and contributed Kubernetes-focused functionality to DigitalOcean’s official doctl CLI. She has a track record of shrinking and clarifying legacy codebases, raising test coverage dramatically, and building repeatable developer workflows and tooling that teams adopt without hand-holding. An academic-turned-practitioner, she also brings research-grade measurement techniques to product engineering and an unusual knack for visual explanations and information architecture.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Pattern Recognition (Computer Science) Doctoral minors: Statistics Cognitive Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Pattern Recognition (Computer Science) Doctoral minors: Statistics Cognitive Psychology at The George Washington UniversityBS Mathematics Computer Science, BS Mathematics Computer Science at Dickinson College
English, French, German
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
benchmark10
cloud-computing10
testing10
testcase10
command-line-interface10
test-framework10
benchmarking10
ruby10
tracks10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
minitest10
test-automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/doctl
Dec 2018 - May 2020
The official command line interface for the DigitalOcean API.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 150 commits, 238 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Hilary contributed to the Kubernetes cluster management functionality within the `doctl` CLI. They modified the `commands/kubernetes.go` file, suggesting involvement in features related to Kubernetes cluster operations, configuration, and possibly deployment automation. The commits also touch on build processes and snap packaging, indicating DevOps practices related to the CLI's build and distribution. This suggests the user played a role in expanding the `doctl` CLI's capabilities for interacting with Kubernetes and managing related infrastructure.
command-line-toolapicommand-line-interfaceinfrastructurecloud
exercism/ruby
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Exercism exercises in Ruby.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:243 commits, 87 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Hilary primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure within the exercism/ruby repository. Their commits focus on generating, updating, and refactoring test cases for various exercises, including those related to data structures, algorithms, and mathematical concepts. The user's work involved modifying test templates and extracting data from canonical datasets to streamline test creation and improve the overall testing process.
exercism-exercisesexercism-trackrubypaddingexercism
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