Summary
Chris Holaday is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-usage production systems across startups and enterprise teams from San Francisco. He combines hands-on full-stack experience (Ruby on Rails, React, Elixir/Phoenix, cloud and Kubernetes) with people-first management, routinely turning multi-quarter roadmaps into shippable, reliable products. At Zendesk and FloQast he led platform modernization and launched greenfield products, templating tech to accelerate new teams and introduce TypeScript and best practices. Comfortable in wear-all-hats startup roles as well as large org coordination, he focuses on measurable customer impact and cross-functional collaboration. A UC Santa Barbara computer engineering graduate who studied Italian culture in Siena, he brings both technical depth and a global, product-minded perspective.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
n/a Italian language and culture, n/a Italian language and culture at Università per Stranieri di Siena
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara