Joel Holland
Chief Technology Officer at S2-D2
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Holland is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with nearly three decades of engineering and leadership experience, currently steering product and M&A-driven technology strategy at Knowledge Grid and DeepSeas. He has a proven record scaling cybersecurity and SaaS businesses—architecting an MSSP platform that grew from $500K to $10M ARR, earning ISO 27001 and contributing to an exit at 5x valuation. Joel blends deep technical R&D (23 patents credited across roles, including a 100x-faster approximate query analytics engine) with commercial savvy, advising on dozens of build-versus-buy decisions weekly to shape acquisition strategy. He excels at integrating acquired teams and tech, having led multiple successful integrations and divestitures while reducing customer churn through strong security posture. A former nuclear engineer with formal training in engineering and Theory of Constraints, he pairs disciplined systems thinking with creative data-science and machine-learning innovation. Based in Carlsbad, CA, Joel is equally at home mentoring multinational teams and translating complex technical trade-offs into measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Georgia Southern UniversityJonah, Theory of Constraints, Jonah, Theory of Constraints at Goldratt InstituteNuclear Engineering, Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Engineering at Naval Nuclear Power School
GermanGithub contributions (5)
Dnallohleoj/MovieMagic
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Dnallohleoj/ProjFlash_GGJ22
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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