Justin Holmes
Head Of Product & Engineering at Zero Homes
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Holmes is a pragmatic engineering leader and Head of Product & Engineering with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven systems and scaling product teams. He has led large cross-functional organizations to deliver commerce and design platforms at Sunrun, launched Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs into a multimarket practice, and now runs product and engineering at Zero Homes. Technically hands-on across GraphQL, AWS Serverless, Kubernetes/OpenShift and ML-backed computer vision, he blends architecture, delivery strategy, and product discovery to turn ambiguous problems into reliable production systems. An active advocate of Behavior Driven Development and Domain Driven Design, he also contributes to open-source projects like ReadTheDocs (comments/moderation APIs), reflecting a taste for practical, reusable tooling. Based in Denver, he pairs systems thinking with a playful curiosity—“things that are funnier after you've seen them 100 times”—that surfaces in elegant, repeatable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
rest-api10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
database-design8
postgresql6
doc5
sphinx4
mkdocs4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
readthedocs/readthedocs.org
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
The source code that powers readthedocs.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 10 days
Contributions summary:Justin contributed to the implementation of features related to project comments and moderation within the readthedocs.org project. They added functionality to allow comments per project, modified database models, and created views to handle comment operations like adding, retrieving, and moderating. The user's work also involved refactoring comment-related models and developing API endpoints for comment management using DRF3.
mkdocspythonpowerssphinxsphinx-doc
jMyles/nucypher-kms-umbral
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Nucypher KMS implementation of Umbral using OpenSSL and Cryptography.io
Contributions:86 pushes, 19 branches in 5 months
cryptographynucypherkmsencryptionopenssl
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