Bio
 With 8 month-old Surya, who we rescued from the Humain Society with her sister, Lhasa, as kittens. Surya likes to purr in my ear. |
A native of Manhattan, Helena (Holly) Edelson is a software architect focusing on enterprise Java and messaging, and is a violinist, climber and sea kayaker. She began in classical music at the age of 3 on her request to play the violin. By age 6 she was performing in orchestras in Manhattan, and later began studying music theory, performance, and other elements at conservatories, going on to make all county, all state and all eastern orchestras and finally studying and performing at Tanglewood, where she rehearsed under such famous artists as Leonard Bernstein. Always with an interest in Biology, she became interested in Systematics and sustainable engineering solutions for energy, water, and resource management, so she switched gears to biological systems modeling and design: pathways of energy in large-scale systems and resource provisioning. She did her graduate research at the Institute of Arctic Biology, where she was introduced to writing complex algorithms for biological modeling and population ecology. Living in Alaska with just a bike to get around led her to winter biking (in as cold as -45 F), mountain climbing in the Alaska range, winter ultra-marathon bike racing, and expedition sea kayaking. When deciding to go into software engineering as a career, she learned Java and JEE at the Sun Microsystems and built her first API based on DNA and genetic principles as a model for modularity, scalability, and replication. Her start as a software engineer began with developing middleware messaging systems for global, wireless distributed messaging systems using satellite and high frequency telecommunications. She later became very interested in the Spring technologies, and currently works as a Senior Engineer at SpringSource/VMware and lives in Park City, UT with her husband, Peter Gram. |
