Christopher Erhardt
Director, Business Continuity Management & Third Party Management at PayPal
Millsboro, Delaware, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Erhardt is a seasoned technology and risk leader with nine years at PayPal, now directing Business Continuity and Third Party Management while building enterprise risk programs that tangibly protect revenue and operations. He blends hands-on software and program management roots—having led development of PayPal’s credit decision engine and managed a $125M portfolio—with deep expertise in credit, collections, internal controls, and vendor governance. Known for structuring nascent First Line of Defense disciplines and turning fragmented control environments into accountable, testable programs, he delivers measurable operational improvements. His open-source contributions to tooling around build and container compatibility (notably improvements to the mold linker build and Docker/Podman support) reflect a practical DevOps mindset that informs his risk remediation work. Based in Millsboro, DE, he pairs cross-functional leadership with a background spanning finance, social work, and IT, giving him a pragmatic, people-centered approach to complex enterprise risk.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Calvert Hall College H.S.Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General at University of BaltimoreBA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at Loyola University MarylandMSW, Social Work, MSW, Social Work at University of Maryland BaltimorePre-Med/Biology, Pre-Med/Biology at Washington College
Github Skills (14)
sh10
linux10
script10
docker10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
build-automation10
cicd10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
linker9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rui314/mold
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Mold: A Modern Linker 🦠
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 36 commits, 42 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the build process and environment setup for the mold linker. Their work included fixing issues related to static linking and Docker container compatibility, enhancing the build scripts to support Podman and SELinux, and adding dependencies for testing. They also addressed quoting and shell scripting issues, and made code improvements to address potential errors.
moldlinker
sicherha/mold
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
mold: A Modern Linker
Contributions:82 pushes, 72 branches in 3 years 1 month
moldlinker
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