Chris Black
Partner Solutions Architect at Elastic
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Black is a seasoned Partner Solutions Architect and self-taught security generalist with nine years of focused experience in SIEM, threat intelligence, and pre-sales engineering across startups and Fortune 100 customers. He combines a liberal-arts BA in history with deep technical chops, enabling him to translate complex security architectures into business-aligned solutions that resonate with both SMEs and C-level stakeholders. A longtime educator and former technical writer, Chris mentors future cybersecurity professionals at ThriveDX and has taught university courses, bringing classroom clarity to real-world implementations. His career spans early-stage startup bootstrapping, channel and partner enablement, and large-scale enterprise sales engineering, giving him rare fluency in both go-to-market and post-sales success. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and strong communication, he consistently helps partners sell, deploy, and scale search, security, and observability solutions. An inquisitive lifelong learner, he enjoys diving into new technologies while documenting and teaching what he discovers.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA History, Bachelor of Arts - BA History at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (7)
calculator10
javascript8
tracks3
react2
security2
raspberry-pi2
iot1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PrimeAcademy/phrygian-git-branching
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 18 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 day
PrimeAcademy/arrays-loops-activity
Jan 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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