Zera Holladay
Staff Engineer at Wayfair
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolZera Holladay is a Staff Engineer and systems architect with 13–15 years of experience designing cloud-native, scalable platforms across retail, pharma, and finance, currently driving architecture and modernization at Wayfair. She specializes in Generative AI and LLM integration—working with Gemini and OpenAI—implementing RAG pipelines and Model Context Protocol to improve observability, developer productivity, and compliance. Zera has a proven track record of cutting costs, accelerating delivery, and enabling enterprise-grade reliability at scale, informed by leadership roles at Eli Lilly and earlier systems and operations positions. Based in Indianapolis, she blends deep technical rigor from a Computer Science background with a creative BA perspective, which contributes to pragmatic, human-centered infrastructure decisions. An operator who moves quickly from prototype to production, she focuses on measurable business impact rather than novelty alone.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Github Skills (14)
databases7
flask-bootstrap6
google6
cloud-sql6
database5
gcp5
flask5
sql-database5
google-cloud5
bootstrap5
heroku5
python4
sqlalchemy4
sql4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zeraholladay/Flask-Oauth2-Example
Aug 2012 - May 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 9 years 10 months
google-oauth2herokupythonsqlalchemyflask
zeraholladay/pysolr4
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 3 months
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