Holly Cummins
Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus at IBM
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHolly Cummins is a Senior Technical Staff Member focused on Quarkus with over a decade of experience building cloud-native Java platforms and developer tooling. A recognized Java Champion and conference speaker, she helped shape Quarkus’ core by contributing backend and test fixes to the high-profile quarkusio/quarkus project and by improving extension metadata and CI behavior. Her career blends hands-on engineering, delivery leadership across IBM and Red Hat, and strategic innovation work in IBM Garage and corporate strategy. With graduate training from Oxford in software engineering and quantum information, she brings a research-minded approach to pragmatic platform design and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BArtSc Physics, BArtSc Physics at McMaster UniversityMSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University of Oxford
English, French
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Github Skills (19)
testing10
java10
javas10
osgi10
maven10
webservice9
cicd9
cloud-native9
devops8
kubernetes7
kubernetes-pods7
collections6
eclipse6
test-container6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
quarkusio/quarkus
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:184 reviews, 47 commits, 134 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Holly contributed to the Quarkus project by addressing test-related issues, including conditional test execution based on system properties and M1 Mac configurations. They synced with external repository for jbang scripts, and also removed unused hibernate artifacts from a mongo test. Further work involved aligning import and formatting settings and adding source code repository coordinates (scm) to extension metadata files. Additionally, the user provided fixes for tests using JUnit Templates.
kubernetesquarkusjavareactivecloud-native
quarkiverse/antora-ui-quarkiverse
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Antora UI bundle for the Quarkiverse website
Contributions:9 reviews, 67 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 8 months
bundleantora
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