Cameron Holiman
@mermaid on GitHub
Employment
Provo, UT
Qualtrics
2014 - Present
Staff Software Engineer / Team Lead
2025 - Present
- Lead Design Office Hours sessions to accelerate product development across Engineering Research organization.
- Rearchitected database and file storage for our qualitative video platform enabling customer-managed encryption, resulting in enhanced security compliance and allowing for significant increase in the number of customers who can utilize the products.
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead
2022 - 2025
Qualitative Video Platform
- Lead a team of 4 engineers to build a comprehensive suite of qualitative video research products from the ground up.
- Created custom video playback controls and online video editor for analysis, clipping, editing, and assembling highlight reels with high accessibility and performance.
- Developed in-house solutions for video processing, storage, editing, and streaming with a high focus on cost efficiency, resulting in an extremely profitable product (99%+ profit margin in some cases) that has driven many millions of dollars in revenue.
- Developed migration tools designed to help Qualtrics win customers and migrate them from competitors.
- Through targeted quarterly analysis and investments over 3 years, reduced customer issues by 50%, increased usage by 3000%, and decreased issue rate by 90%.
- Added necessary metrics and tracking on product usage to guide improvements.
- Act as subject matter expert across Qualtrics research organization for AWS, and internal load balancing tools, assisting teams and individuals with architecture, best practices, and training.
Software Engineer I & II
2016 - 2022
Qualtrics Survey Engine
- Helped develop the new Qualtrics Survey Engine, to replace the legacy engine.
- Created new hub-spoke architecture for the Survey Engine, allowing surveys to be delivered from any spoke datacenter worldwide.
- Successfully increased reliability (100% uptime some quarters), faster delivery through worldwide distribution, and larger scale (10M+ respondents per day).
- Primary developer responsible for the final deprecation of the legacy Survey Engine.
QE Engineer
2014 - 2016
Qualtrics Survey Engine
- Responsible for testing & validating the UI & Backend of the legacy Qualtrics Survey Engine and it's migration to the new Survey Engine.
- Developed framework to enable the creation of E2E tests for the Survey Engine to validate features & survey compatibility between both engines.
Utah
Island Sprite, LLC
2020 - Present
- Plantir: Application for tracking & scheduling tasks for plant owners
- Coffee Snob Stickers: iMessage sticker app featuring coffee equipment
Education
Cedar City, UT
Southern Utah University
2010 - 2014
- Major: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. GPA 3.9
Tools & Technologies
- Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Golang, iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Android, Java, HTML, CSS, Python
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (DynamoDB, S3, MediaConvert, SQS, SNS, Lambda, CloudWatch, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk), Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, Gitlab, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, SumoLogic
Patents
- US 10,049,085: Presenting views of an electronic document
- US 10,521,503: Authenticating a respondent to an electronic survey
- US 11,392,970: Administering a digital survey over voice-capable devices