Chris Holmes Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, NH, NL

San Francisco, California, US

Named the first 'Planet Fellow' after serving on the executive team, to make progress on key problems and opportunities as an individual contributor while serving on the extended leadership team. This has included a number of roles and tasks, reporting up through product, strategy and software engineering: - Revitalized Planet Explorer as Product Manager.

San Francisco, California, US

Elevated to the executive team to bring the product perspective and to align the company around a long-term product vision. Lead the product strategy and took responsibility for the product roadmap, while participating in weekly exec team meetings to work together on company priorities. This was a preset term of one year, to build up more product.

San Francisco, California, US

Built out the first Product Management capability at Planet. Took on a variety of tasks, shifting between leadership, architecture & strategy, and sprinting with engineering teams. This was done sitting at the intersection of business and engineering, participating deeply in both groups to fully understand our customers and our technology. Worked to ship.

San Francisco, California, US

Worked to guide and frame the product strategy of going from a raw imagery to a full web api-enabled developer and partner ecosystem. Also started to sort out the open source / open data strategy and to explore structures for maximizing the social impact of Planet Labs.

Providing expert industry guidance to help Taylor Geospatial Engine achieve paths to commercialization. Helped to create TGE's 'Innovation Bridge' program and to select the first initiative on Field Boundaries. Leveraged industry connections and networked to key stakeholders to bring together the right group for the initial workshop in St. Louis..

Conceived of the idea of Cloud-Native Geospatial as a common approach among a number of new formats after working on Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC), and seeing philosophically aligned efforts like Zarr. Organized the first two 'Cloud-Native Geo Outreach Events' to bring together people working on it, and bought the.

Lisbon, Portugal, PT

Assist on strategic direction, technology trends, business development and product roadmap. Worked for 2 days a week in 2013 and early 2014 - handled the partner program, assisted on account management for larger clients, and fed customer priorities in to product development.

Brave New Software is the non-profit behind Lantern, an open source internet censorship circumvention tool that operates in some of the most extreme censorship environments, such as China, Iran, and Russia. https://getlantern.orgHelped Brave New Software's overall organizational strategy, including funding and product direction. In 2013 did contract work.

Arlington, VA, US

Helped the OGC understand the new world of open source collaboration, working to bring the best of breed tools and techniques from other worlds while retaining the unique culture of the consortium to build better standards. Participated as a core member of the GeoPackage Standard Working Group to learn OGC's specification development process, as it had.

Arlington, VA, US

Funded by OGC to be their first 'Visiting Fellow', focused on combining their OGC API approach with the 'cloud-native geospatial' approach. Explored static versions of the OGC API specifications, and did a deep dive into the 'vector data' (points, lines, polygons) landscape for the potential of a 'cloud-native vector' data format, which lead to GeoParquet.

Washington DC, DC, US

Built/Lead/Collaborated on open geospatial standards including Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG), SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC), and GeoParquet. The general pattern was to coin the name, create the website, recruit contributors, encourage early implementations, and promote through blogging, speaking & social media. STAC and GeoParquet involved more.

Brussels, BE

Elected Sustaining Member Representative, out of the LocationTech community.

St. Louis, MO, US

Founded OpenGeo as a market-driven initiative under the umbrella of the non-profit OpenPlans to provide a sustainability model to create a more robust geospatial infrastructure for the world. Grew it to ~$3m in revenue and ushered it through its spin out as a VC-backed company called Boundless Geospatial. Lead the company, taking on the most important.

New York City, US

Served as the first lead developer of GeoServer, taking it from an alpha project with no users or contributors to a robust open source community with many large production users. GeoServer continues to flourish more than 20 years later, with over 7 million downloads, 4 books written, 3.6k stars on github, and thousands of production installations, powering.

Washington, DC, US

Completed a Fulbright fellowship focused on the potential for open source software to help build spatial data infrastructures in developing countries. Continued building the GeoServer, and explored its applicability to African SDI's. Presented a paper at the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) conference, and gave a talk at CSIR in South Africa..