Nora Holmes
Sr Machine Learning Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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SeniorNora Holmes is a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable distributed systems, developer tooling, and data pipelines for enterprise and startup environments. She has a strong track record designing internal platforms that accelerate engineering velocity—most recently leading Kafka developer tooling and platform work that expanded adoption and reduced onboarding time. Nora blends backend, infrastructure, and ML competencies (Python, NodeJS, Docker, Kafka, AWS) with practical product focus, having improved OTA inventory pipelines and ML-driven candidate ranking systems. Comfortable in cross-disciplinary and hardware-adjacent teams, she repeatedly turns legacy stacks into maintainable, high-performance services. Based in Las Vegas, she brings two decades of technology exposure and an operator’s mindset to solve reliability, latency, and observability challenges.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (27)
session-cache10
jquery9
kohana7
abstraction-layer7
abstraction7
twitter-login6
javascript6
mongodb5
nodejs5
twitter5
nosql-database4
node-cli4
redis4
aws4
authentication4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nichcurtis/KO3-NoSQL
May 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:78 commits in 1 year 1 month
nosql-databasedynamoabstraction-layerawsaws-dynamo
surgeforward/MLearn.js
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:44 commits in 1 month
regressionpre-processingproblemsjavascriptmachine-learning
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