Summary
Victor Holz is a Lead Release Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience streamlining build, CI/CD and release operations at scale, currently driving release strategy at Salesforce from San Francisco. He combines deep release automation expertise—Jenkins, Maven, Python, Bash, Groovy—and platform migration experience with a knack for breaking monoliths into modular builds that dramatically cut build and deploy times. Known for pragmatic problem solving and rapid learning, he moves fluidly between engineering, tooling, and cross-team coordination to keep complex delivery pipelines predictable. His background ranges from SDK and backend Java development to QA automation and even hardware-level diagnostics, reflecting an unusually broad troubleshooting skill set for a release-focused engineer. Colleagues rely on him to design repeatable processes and to roll up his sleeves to debug environments, networks, or build systems when releases are on the line.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Spanish