Holly Becker's Resumé

Experience

Backend software developer creating asynchronous APIs for frontend and mobile teams.
Owned project for a new microservice that integrated our system with an external API, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and subsequent feature requests requiring data migrations.
Led collaboration with other teams to confirm API design before starting implementation.
Clarified and streamlined out-of-date developer documentation.
Presented git tutorial for coworkers, took over organizing developer lunch & learns, and became a resource for Python & git questions.
Skills: Python, aiohttp, Docker, docker-compose, git, py.test

Developer dealing with scalability & reliability of VMs used for client automated testing.
Helped investigate performance issues, implemented solutions & verified improvements.
Improved documentation on internal tools and onboarding for my team.
Skills: Python, Ansible, Go

Full-stack developer on Archivematica, an open-source digital preservation tool.
Added code review process & automated testing to a legacy codebase to improve quality.
Upgraded core frameworks and evaluated replacements for deprecated dependencies to maintain an up-to-date and secure codebase.
Upgraded legacy raw SQL migrations to use Django's migrations, including data migrations.
Collaborated with systems analysts to understand and refine feature requirements based on domain knowledge and technical difficulty.
Answered internal and community questions for technical and non-technical audiences.
Wrote developer-facing documentation & helped analysts write user-facing documentation.
Skills: Python, Django, git, py.test, HTML & CSS, AngularJS
GitHub

Can I Use that Code? (Conference talk, Slides) Overview of software licences, covering different categories of licences, details of common open-source licences, and how they interact in the same codebase.
Intermediate Git Tutorial (Workshop, Slides) Workshop on using git with other people. Covered forking & pull requests on Github, git remotes, merging & rebasing. Co-created & co-presented.
vcr.py (Lightning talk, Slides) An introduction to vcr.py, a python mocking library for HTTP requests that auto-generates fixtures from live data.
Python Implementations (Lightning talk, Slides) An introduction to the different common implementations of Python: CPython, Pypy, Cython, Jython, IronPython.