Kris is currently a distinguished engineer at here.com. Before that, he was working at Booking.com for 15 years in various positions around MySQL databases, systems automation, and data center planning, as well as a performance engineer. At SysEleven her was working on creating Openstack clusters automatically.

Kris has been a travelling consultant at MySQL AB, and a Senior Security Engineer at web.de, creating an ISMS and the processes around it. His name is still showing up in the output of the phpcredits() function, and in some storage related Linux kernel FAQs.