# Christopher Holve > Member of Technical Staff Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherholve Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience, specializing in backend and full-stack development. I’ve led and delivered large-scale projects still in use years later, and bring recent hands-on expertise applying large language models (LLMs) at scale to production systems. ## Work Experience ### Member of the Technical Staff @ Charta Health Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ AngelList Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Owner of end-to-end document parsing infrastructure at AngelList, combining AWS Serverless architecture, multimodal LLMs, and human-in-the-loop review for accuracy at scale. - Designed and shipped cost-efficient features on AWS Serverless architecture. - Applied and compared major LLMs at scale to extract meaning from financial documents, improving coverage and accuracy. - Built an automated evaluation framework to measure and benchmark LLM parsing effectiveness on internal documents. - Created a human-in-the-loop workflow to route edge cases for review, ensuring quality and reliability at scale. ### Head of Engineering @ Gaia Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom Directed a 9-person engineering team in London, driving successful product launches, technical strategy, and organizational growth. - Managed and mentored a team of up to 9 engineers, fostering collaboration and technical excellence. - Oversaw end-to-end delivery of the Gaia v2 product, launched on time and incident-free in early January. - Facilitated retrospectives and design reviews to improve team practices and project outcomes. - Developed the team’s technical strategy and hiring plan for the first half of 2024. - Administered IT resources and infrastructure for the Gaia organization. ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Ladder Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States The group technical lead for the Ladder partnerships business. Included setting the technical strategy for the group, managing internal and external business relationships, advising the technical leads of each internal engineering sub team on a daily basis, and directly managing individual engineers. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Ladder Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States Implemented the production version of the Ladder iOS app, using React Native Organized and led initiatives to build a strong engineering culture at Ladder, such as the first, now annual, Ladder Hackathon and Ladder Code Retreat. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ladder Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California Led the design and implementation of the core Ladder underwriting rules engine. Included a migration from the historical third-party rules engine. ### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, Ca - Technical lead and engineering manager of the Palantir Gotham Search team. Developed a feature to enable zero downtime reindexing of Palantir Gotham’s proprietary distributed column store. Reviewed designs for features responsible for enabling full text search and aggregations of data sources. - Traveled to customer site visits during times of high need to improve stability and performance of the Palantir Gotham platform. ### Product Support Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, CA ### Advanced Thermodynamics Series Course Assistant @ Stanford University Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Stanford, California, United States Course assistant for advanced undergraduate, three class sequence in heat transfer, compressible fluids, and advanced thermodynamics. Ran laboratories for students, but also held weekly office hours to help with questions in all aspects of course ### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Bespoke Innovations, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA ### Consumer Product Internship @ Tessera Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Jose, CA ### Summer Intern @ Foxconn Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Kunshan, China ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cholve --- Source: https://flows.cv/christopherholve JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christopherholve/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22