Robert Holt
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Mercury
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Holt is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building language runtimes, static analysis tools, and developer tooling—most notably as a core engineer and long-time maintainer of PowerShell, its VSCode extension, and PSScriptAnalyzer. Now leading ledger and risk teams at Mercury, he blends low-level .NET expertise (reflection, threading, native interop) with practical product delivery for banking systems. His background in compilers and language implementation, honed tutoring compiler and formal methods courses and building DSLs, informs a pragmatic approach to correctness and performance. An active open-source maintainer, he has contributed deep fixes and refactors across PowerShell repos, including compatibility rules and test automation, showing a knack for improving developer experience at scale. Originally from Australia and now based in Seattle, he combines academic rigor with production-grade engineering and a taste for language and runtime design.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, French
Github Skills (30)
visual-studio-code10
debugging10
debug10
pester10
analyzer10
typescript10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
linter10
powershell10
typescripts10
csharp10
test-automation10
api-design9
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices
Mar 2018 - Oct 2021
A common platform for PowerShell development support in any editor or application!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 140 reviews, 544 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert's contributions focused on enhancing PowerShell Editor Services, particularly concerning debugging features and Pester integration. Their work included adding events for PowerShell execution status, refactoring Pester script detection for improved analysis, and adding functionality like SaveAs support. They implemented various code improvements, null checks, and refactoring to maintain code quality and enhance the reliability of the editor's functionalities.
windowspowershellintellisensedebuggerlanguage-server
PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Download ScriptAnalyzer from PowerShellGallery
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 71 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the development of compatibility rules for PowerShell ScriptAnalyzer. Their work involved implementing new compatibility rules, focusing on the serialization of compatibility rule types, and integrating this functionality within the existing codebase. Furthermore, the user made significant improvements to settings file parsing and addressed issues related to command info caching, enhancing the tool's reliability and performance. They also worked on the UI, adding test cases and fixing syntax.
powershellgallerylinterpowershellscriptanalyzerformatter
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