Summary
Vicky Holcomb is a senior technical lead and full-stack developer with an 11-year professional track record and over 15 years of hands-on web development experience. Based in Chico, California, she excels at shipping accessible, high-availability front-end experiences using React, TypeScript, and component-driven design while coordinating microservices back-ends in Java, Kotlin, and Node.js. She has led cross-functional teams to standardize engineering practices—improving onboarding, increasing UI test coverage by 40%, and reducing maintenance costs through thoughtful migrations from legacy stacks. Vicky’s work has directly broadened market reach and created new revenue streams, notably launching a student-facing app that expanded addressable users by 20%. She combines a practical focus on accessibility (VPAT and WCAG 2.1) with infrastructure familiarity in AWS and Terraform, making her equally comfortable in code reviews, architecture decisions, and developer tooling. Colleagues know her for turning vague requirements into clear, testable stories and for pragmatic leadership that accelerates delivery without sacrificing quality.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Information Systems Computer Science Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Information Systems Computer Science Business Administration at California State University, Chico