Summary
Holly Malm is a full-stack software engineer consultant with 11 years of experience building and hardening web applications across Java/Kotlin backend services and modern JavaScript frontends. Based in Golden, Colorado, she has a track record of modernizing legacy systems, migrating messaging infrastructures, and improving site reliability through testing and observability at companies like Slalom, Documoto, and Stella & Dot. Her background in English, humanities, and an MBA gives her an unusual strength in clear technical communication, user-focused product thinking, and documentation. Trained at Hackbright, she blends disciplined TDD and load-testing practices with practical DevOps skills (Docker, AWS, Redis) to keep systems robust in production. She’s comfortable spanning 80% backend to 20% frontend work and brings a thoughtful, multidisciplinary approach to engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English and Humanities with a History Minor, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English and Humanities with a History Minor at University of Northern Iowa
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hackbright