Shayne Holmes
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShayne Holmes is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and improving large-scale products across Microsoft, Qualtrics, and now Google, blending hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. He focuses on raising product quality while reducing long-term maintenance through continuous strategic refactoring, turning incidents and bugs into opportunities for systemic improvement. Comfortable across firmware-to-cloud boundaries, Shayne has contributed to the widely used QMK open-source keyboard firmware—adding customizable input behaviors and improving cross-platform install logic—reflecting a practical interest in embedded systems and developer tooling. Based in Redmond, WA, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with a track record of shipping durable, well-documented features and mentoring teams through technical debt.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
c-language10
firmware10
qmk10
c1110
c1710
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
atmel9
keyboard9
keyboard-input9
configuration-management9
atmel-studio9
cplus9
avr9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shayne contributed to the QMK firmware by adding features related to keyboard functionality. Their work included implementing tap toggle modifiers, providing documentation, and incorporating an NKRO virtual dip-switch for advanced keyboard behavior. Additionally, they refactored sendstring functionality to allow broader customizability, and added a new function to allow sending a string with a delay. Further, they fixed logic in macos install.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
shayneholmes/tmk_keyboard
Oct 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:91 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
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