Chris Holmes
Planet Fellow, Open & VP Product Strategy Partnerships
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Holmes is a mission-driven product and strategy leader with 15+ years building the open geospatial ecosystem, from founding OpenGeo and leading GeoServer development to shaping Planet Labs’ product, partnership and platform strategy. He blends deep technical roots with commercial savvy—moving from lead developer to CEO/GM roles and then to executive product strategy—to create sustainable, market-ready open source ecosystems like the OpenGeo Suite, STAC, COG and GeoParquet. At Planet he defined a five-year platform strategy, revitalized Planet Explorer, guided acquisitions, and incubated partnership models that align openness with business sustainability. Chris has a track record of convening communities and fundraising for standards work, and he deliberately hires people stronger than himself to scale impact. Based in Amsterdam, he combines a historian’s perspective with practical systems thinking to drive long-term change at the intersection of technology, policy and social good.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA History, BA History at Stanford University
Github Skills (200)
gdal10
proxy10
metadata10
specification10
catalog10
ogc10
api10
lantern10
computer-vision10
organize10
querying10
python10
api-client10
accelerator10
ckan10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cholmes/OpenGeo-Playbook
Dec 2010 - Dec 2011
Contributions:23 commits in 11 months
cholmes/qgis_plugin_gpq_downloader
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
A QGIS plugin to make it easier to stream data from large GeoParquet 1.1 datasets with BBOX.
Contributions:14 releases, 18 reviews, 61 PRs in 4 months
geoparquetgisqgisqgis-plugin
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