Chris Holley
Founding Engineer at Stealth
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Holley is a Founding Engineer and data-focused cloud engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating scalable batch and streaming data platforms, most recently building energy-focused systems from Denver. He has deep hands-on expertise with Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Lake, Snowflake, and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Airflow, Databricks) and has owned business-critical SaaS metric pipelines and high-availability production deployments. Chris combines practical engineering—PoCs for Confluent Cloud, a Spark Kafka connector, CI/CD and Helm charts—with mentorship and architecture collaboration, translating complex data requirements into reliable production services. Beyond technical delivery, he’s passionate about education, DEI, and applying technology to repair social harms, bringing a problem-solver’s mindset to non-technical challenges as well. As a neurodivergent engineer and active ally, he blends empathy and systems-thinking to build inclusive teams and resilient data products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Houston
English
Github Skills (21)
sbt-plugin3
cve3
sbt3
rainbow2
scala2
security2
infosec2
monitor2
vulnerability-scanners2
static-analysis2
vulnerabilities2
infrastructure2
owasp-dependencycheck2
software-composition-analysis1
security-automation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DataAnalyticsinStudentHands/FormBuilderBackend
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 7 months
restfulvalidationformbuilder
cmholley/CombinedBackend
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
placepythongoalbackendscombine
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