Chris Holden

About Chris Holden

Innovative leader with a proven track record of building out SDLC systems to support small to enterprise companies providing flexibility and automation to support any language on any OS.Experience with evaluation, design and implementation of cloud or on premise systems to support the software cycle from development to production.

Experience

1. Vice President of Software Engineering and Sre

   Global Payments Inc.

   Mar 2023 — Present · Alpharetta, GA, US

   Leading a global team of over 100 engineers specializing in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering and responsible for all on premise, AWS and GCP automation, implementation and support of Kubernetes infrastructure and applications across North America, UK, Europe and South America.Provided strategic guidance on the adoption of OpenShift, overseeing design, migration planning, and successful deployment.m Unified DevOps and SRE teams to collaborate on AWS migration for Issuing applications, ensuring seamless transition and operational efficiency.Automation team responsible using Ansible to build out all inf Guided Merchant DevOps and Infrastructure teams in implementing SRE best practices, improving reliability, scalability, and automation.

Education

• Kennesaw State University

  BS, Management Information systems

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Weblogic
• Websphere Application Server
• Agile Methodologies
• Unix
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Enterprise Architecture
• Sql
• Linux
• Quality Center
• Jboss Application Server
• Apache Buildr
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Ant
• Tomcat
• Disaster Recovery
• Websphere
• Databases
• Java
• Ruby
• Integration
• Buildr
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Maven
• Sdlc
• Xml
• Database Design
• Solution Architecture
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Perl
• Software Development
• Db2
• Software Project Management
• System Deployment
• Solaris 8/9/10
• Web Applications
• Apache
• Soa
• Shell Scripting
• Red Hat Linux