Christopher Holmes
Engineering Manager at Simply Business
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristopher Holmes is an Engineering Manager based in London with 11 years of software engineering experience, evolving from hands-on developer roles into technical leadership at Simply Business and the UK Government Digital Service. He combines practical systems design and team coaching with a strong Ruby backend pedigree, contributing to the prominent OpenTelemetry Ruby project by improving exporters, instrumentation, and context propagation. His background in electronic and computer engineering (MEng, University of Warwick) underpins a methodical approach to observability and secure data handling, exemplified by work to obfuscate sensitive Redis arguments and add SSL verification options. Known for translating complex operational needs into reliable platform features, he brings a blend of pragmatic engineering and governance experience across public and private sectors.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering with Computer Engineering MEng, Electronic Engineering with Computer Engineering MEng at University of Warwick
Github Skills (8)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
telemetry10
redis10
otel10
jaeger10
ruby10
openssl8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
OpenTelemetry Ruby API & SDK, and related gems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 19 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Ruby project by fixing bugs and adding features related to exporters and instrumentation. They addressed issues in the Jaeger and OTLP exporters, including handling errors, adding SSL verification options, and improving metric reporting. Additionally, the user implemented functionality to obfuscate sensitive arguments in the Redis instrumentation and added context propagation support for Concurrent::Async operations.
opentelemetryapiapi-sdktracingruby
chrisholmes/dotfiles
Feb 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:10 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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