Chris Holmes
Principal Information Security Architect
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Holmes is a Principal Information Security Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience transitioning legacy bare-metal operations into secure, cloud-native DevOps platforms. Based in Old Toronto, he has led architecture and security for large-scale Cisco products—driving FedRAMP-aligned cloud deployments, automating complex deployments with Ansible, and improving resilience via strategic database migrations and monitoring solutions. His background spans telecom and media infrastructure to managed services, combining deep operational incident experience with platform design and security advocacy. Notably, he engineered a customer-facing TLS gateway and cut deployment times by half, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on both security and delivery velocity.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Computer Science at Queen's University
English, French
Github Skills (8)
deploying9
docker7
ip-address6
cloud-native5
kubernetes5
golang3
openstack1
ansible1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrholme/go-ipam
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
golang library for ip address management
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years
golanggolang-libraryaddressip-address-managementip-address
chrholme/go-syslog
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Syslog server library for go.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 tags in 1 day
golangserver-librarysyslogsyslog-server
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