Summary
Dan Holle is a serial technology founder and seasoned CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling data platforms across startups and tech giants, including pivotal roles at Teradata, Vertica, Pivotal, HP, and SAP. He blends deep technical craft—authoring large codebases in Java, Python, C++ and contributing to early SQL development—with strategic impact, advising global enterprises and driving product and M&A outcomes. His work spans cloud migrations, data warehouse and lake architectures, ML/quant systems, and real-world analytics that have produced measurable business value (e.g., helping Walmart add over $1B/year in profit). Comfortable both as an executive and a player/coach, he currently runs Datalytics Technologies to deliver agile data engineering, transformation and advisory services across industries. Beyond the obvious, he combines academic rigour (UIUC valedictorian, advanced PhD work) with adventurous persistence—having climbed Everest, sailed the Atlantic and once computed the world’s largest π—bringing curiosity and endurance to thorny engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude) in 2.5 years; Valedictorian in graduating class of 6000+ Completed academic requirements for PhD, BS in Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude) in 2.5 years; Valedictorian in graduating class of 6000+ Completed academic requirements for PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign