Chris Holt
Strategic Engagement & Community Architect
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Holt is a strategic engagement and community architect with a decade of experience building and scaling bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs for enterprise technology leaders. He designs incentives, events, and operating models that turn external security researchers into reliable partners, having led programs at Intel, Yahoo/Verizon Media, and helped grow communities of thousands of hackers. A pragmatic founder and CTO, he builds products and processes that are “exactly as smart as needed” to solve real problems without unnecessary complexity. Chris combines hands-on technical security roots (penetration testing, tool development, DAST/SAST programs) with a talent for community orchestration and rapid prototyping to drive product impact. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he also co-founded a professional community that codifies best practices for vulnerability disclosure and runs recurring events and working groups. An organizer at heart, he mixes policy, ops, and creative recruiting to consistently turn crowds into measurable security outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Reservoir High SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (64)
steam-api10
steamworks10
linux10
dotnet10
steambot10
multiple-accounts10
csharp10
crowdin10
cli10
steam10
deezer9
cli-app9
security9
django9
owasp9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
humor4fun/notes
Jan 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
humor4fun/gscripts
Oct 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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