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.
Legacy Product Transformation
  • 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.
Subject Matter Expert
  • 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

Creating applications for the iOS app store. Designed, developed, maintained by me.

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