Aubrey Holland
Staff Software Engineer at Fillout
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAubrey Holland is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience delivering scalable, product-focused software. As Engineering Lead at Grayce since 2020, he guides cross-functional teams to ship reliable backend systems and data-driven features. Previously, he served as VP of Engineering at Alumnifire and as a technical advisor, shaping engineering culture and product strategy across startups. A hands-on backend engineer, he has deep Ruby on Rails experience and contributed to open-source database sharding tooling through the Octopus project, adapting it for Rails 3.x and 4.0 and ensuring test stability. He blends leadership with a strong technical toolkit, ranging from distributed systems to data analytics, and holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, his career spans roles from startups to consulting, underscoring a track record of turning complex requirements into scalable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Florida State UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (10)
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
git9
ubuntu6
parallel-processing6
monit6
amazon-web-services6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thiagopradi/octopus
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
Database Sharding for ActiveRecord
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aubrey primarily contributed to the `octopus` repository, which provides database sharding functionality for ActiveRecord. The commits focus on adapting the library to different Rails versions (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 4.0), including correcting deprecated methods and handling changes in dependency locations. The contributions include modifying existing code to work with different versions of ActiveRecord, ensuring compatibility, and fixing tests to pass for Rails 4.
ruby-on-railsdatabase-shardingrailsmongoidsharding
withgrayce/klaviyo-loader
Apr 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:9 reviews, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 6 months
apijavascripttracking-jstrackingklaviyo
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